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Heritage-Based Urban Development

  • Matthias Ripp and
  • Jonquille Clifford

The purpose of this entry is to introduce the concept of Heritage-based Urban Development and explain its evolution and implications for historic urban landscapes. The term Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) refers to an integrated understanding of histo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,116 Views
17 Pages

23 March 2022

Urban agglomeration is a new carrier of regional economic development, whose spatial structure can be reflected by the transportation system. The coordination between urban economic development and the transportation system is conducive to promoting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,734 Views
34 Pages

2 November 2022

Since complex urban systems are a combination of different spatial typologies and may have various complex characteristics (human, environmental, social, economic, political, and cultural), decision-making cannot be done without a holistic approach a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,659 Views
35 Pages

Spatial Modelling of Urban Wind Characteristics: Review of Contributions to Sustainable Urban Development

  • Yi-Song Liu,
  • Tan Yigitcanlar,
  • Mirko Guaralda,
  • Kenan Degirmenci and
  • Aaron Liu

Wind, a renewable resource with growing importance in the contemporary world, is considered a capable tool for addressing some of the problems linked with rapid urbanization, unsustainable development, and climate change. As such, understanding model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,308 Views
18 Pages

Comparative Study of Urban Area Growth: Determining the Key Criteria of Inner Urban Development

  • Vytautas Palevičius,
  • Marija Burinskienė,
  • Jurgita Antuchevičienė and
  • Jonas Šaparauskas

20 March 2019

Urban population is steadily growing worldwide, while the number of people in Eastern Europe is decreasing. These two contradictory trends have outlined the proposal for sustainable solutions to solve civil engineering issues that are aimed at implem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,929 Views
17 Pages

6 September 2024

The scientific literature has revealed that there is often a discrepancy between urban planning initiatives and the actual development of cities. Urban development is a complex process strongly affected by the self-organisation of citizens and entrep...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,925 Views
20 Pages

Urban Sustainability Development in Morocco, a Review

  • Lahouari Bounoua,
  • Mohamed Amine Lachkham,
  • Noura Ed-Dahmany,
  • Souad Lagmiri,
  • Hicham Bahi,
  • Mohammed Messouli,
  • Mohammed Yacoubi Khebiza,
  • Joseph Nigro and
  • Kurtis J. Thome

During the last decades, Morocco has recorded substantial urbanization and faced challenges related to urban sprawl and encroachment on fertile lands. This paper reviews several studies assessing urban sustainability development in 27 Moroccan urban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,339 Views
25 Pages

A Method for Delineating Urban Development Boundaries Based on the Urban–Rural Integration Perspective

  • Mengjing Wang,
  • Walter Timo de Vries,
  • Wanchen Sang,
  • Haijun Bao,
  • Yuefeng Lyu and
  • Sheng Liu

14 April 2025

Urban development boundaries are efficient tools for coordinating urban–rural relations and ensuring sustainable development. From 2000 to 2020, the expansion rate of the built-up area in cities and towns throughout China reached 177%, far exce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,100 Views
17 Pages

Managing Sustainable Urban Tourism Development: The Case of Ljubljana

  • Barbara Grah,
  • Vlado Dimovski and
  • Judita Peterlin

21 January 2020

The interest in sustainable urban development and sustainable tourism development is growing. Yet, according to our knowledge, only a limited number of studies combining those two areas exist, and the holistic model for sustainable urban tourism deve...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,807 Views
17 Pages

28 March 2024

Globally, the need for sustainable urban development has never been more urgent than it is now. This is because estimates indicate that more than half of the global population will be living in urban areas by 2050, with South Africa estimated at 80%....

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
12,197 Views
20 Pages

5 August 2022

Suzhou is one of China’s model cities due to its economic development in recent decades. Although the city deserves recognition for its efforts in urban heritage conservation, the current preservation strategy only targets the ancient city and neglec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,284 Views
17 Pages

Urban Infill Development: A Strategy for Saving Peri-Urban Areas in Developing Countries (the Case Study of Ardabil, Iran)

  • Somayeh Mohammadi-Hamidi,
  • Hadi Beygi Heidarlou,
  • Christine Fürst and
  • Hossein Nazmfar

22 March 2022

The overall objective of this study was to investigate urban infill development policies as a good solution to counteract urban sprawl and protect the peri-urban area of Ardabil in Northwestern Iran. In this context, we used a mixed methodology (two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,927 Views
19 Pages

As one of the most important methods for limiting urban sprawl, the accurate delineation of the urban–rural boundary not only promotes the intensive use of urban resources, but also helps to alleviate the urban issues caused by urban sprawl, realizin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,001 Views
21 Pages

5 November 2023

Amidst rapid urbanization, the conflict between urban population and land is intensifying due to ecological degradation and imbalanced supply and demand of land resources in and around cities. Demarcating the urban development boundary is a specific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,465 Views
17 Pages

31 August 2024

Active transportation, with simple mobility modes such as walking and cycling, could be pivotal in addressing multiple sustainability challenges related to socio-economic, environmental, and public health issues. This paper investigates the facilitat...

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  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,519 Views
22 Pages

Historic Urban Landscapes and Heritage Systems as the Basis for Sustainable Urban Development

  • Matthias Ripp,
  • Christer Gustafsson,
  • Zachary Jones,
  • Sushobhan Majumdar and
  • Manal Ginzarly

2 September 2025

Since the 1970s, the understanding of cultural heritage (CH) has expanded from a focus on monumental conservation to a systemic, socially constructed concept shaped by communities and dynamic values. While recognized as a resource for sustainable dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,452 Views
17 Pages

Informal Land Development on the Urban Fringe

  • Jihong Li,
  • Rongxu Qiu,
  • Kaiming Li and
  • Wei Xu

9 January 2018

Urban fringes are an important part of urban growth. In addition to formal land markets, a variety of informal land development methods make urban fringes the most dynamic and complicated areas. The analysis of land transfer and development systems i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
8,608 Views
16 Pages

Open Earth Observations for Sustainable Urban Development

  • Mihir Prakash,
  • Steven Ramage,
  • Argyro Kavvada and
  • Seth Goodman

21 May 2020

Our cities are the frontier where the battle to achieve the global sustainable development agenda over the next decade would be won or lost. This requires an evidence-based approach to local decision-making and resource allocation, which can only be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,490 Views
16 Pages

19 March 2020

Regional urbanization in China has made formidable progress in, among other things, economic growth and urban sprawl, but local development is undergoing severe stress with irreversible impacts for urban ecological environment. Furthermore, spatial i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
13,899 Views
25 Pages

17 March 2015

Sustainable urban development has been receiving growing concerns from both city managers and urban residents across the world. As a yardstick of sustainability, urban carrying capacity (UCC) is an important conceptual underpinning that guides local...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,782 Views
17 Pages

29 August 2025

This study analyzes the factors that influence perceptions of the urban environment and local identity, considering them as key dimensions for understanding sustainable urban development in Latin America. Based on data from a representative sample of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,108 Views
19 Pages

3 February 2023

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) cities’ historic centers have a unique urban fabric regarding land use, physical characteristics, and environmental performance. Several cities within this region are subject to significant development pr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,356 Views
19 Pages

Compact Development Policy and Urban Resilience: A Critical Review

  • Alireza Dehghani,
  • Mehdi Alidadi and
  • Ayyoob Sharifi

20 September 2022

Sustainable development and urban resilience are dominant urban planning paradigms that have become buzzwords in urban planning and policy domains over the past 2–3 decades. While these two paradigms have been analyzed and scrutinized in differ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,591 Views
29 Pages

11 September 2025

Rapid urbanization has led to substantial changes in land use, resulting in challenges related to the urban microclimate across multiple scales. Given the strong relationship between urban morphology and microclimatic conditions, designing appropriat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
19,292 Views
21 Pages

21 January 2019

Many cities evolve over time, but some are designed from scratch. Brasília is presented as a unique case on urban planning for having been built from figuratively nothing, based on a design concept that was the brainchild of Brazilian urbanist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,555 Views
22 Pages

29 July 2022

With the accelerating urbanization and steady economic development in China, the urban built-up area is expanding and the population in the core area is proliferating. The pressure of insufficient urban infrastructure, especially public transportatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,607 Views
25 Pages

12 December 2023

The synergistic improvement in urban resilience and low-carbon development level is significant for mitigating and adapting to climate change, achieving the ‘dual carbon goal’ and promoting sustainable urban development. By constructing a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,395 Views
24 Pages

20 December 2020

The elaboration of City Development Strategies (CDS) helps cities to harness the potential of urbanization through strategic planning, and consequently to contribute to promoting development, balancing city growth, and empowering citizens. Continuous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,751 Views
17 Pages

Understanding the Diversity of Urban–Rural Fringe Development in a Fast Urbanizing Region of China

  • Guoyu Li,
  • Yu CAO,
  • Zhichao He,
  • Ju He,
  • Yu Cao,
  • Jiayi Wang and
  • Xiaoqian Fang

17 June 2021

The territories between urban and rural areas, also called urban–rural fringe, commonly present inherent instability and notable heterogeneity. However, investigating the multifaceted urban–rural fringe phenomenon based on large-scale identification...

  • Review
  • Open Access
72 Citations
13,084 Views
25 Pages

The Evolution of City-as-a-Platform: Smart Urban Development Governance with Collective Knowledge-Based Platform Urbanism

  • Palmyra Repette,
  • Jamile Sabatini-Marques,
  • Tan Yigitcanlar,
  • Denilson Sell and
  • Eduardo Costa

2 January 2021

Since the advent of the second digital revolution, the exponential advancement of technology is shaping a world with new social, economic, political, technological, and legal circumstances. The consequential disruptions force governments and societie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,969 Views
17 Pages

Analysis of an Urban Development Boundary Policy in China Based on the IAD Framework

  • Jiaojiao Luo,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Yuzhe Wu,
  • Yi Peng and
  • Linlin Zhang

15 August 2021

Although urban growth control policies are widely adopted to help sustainable development in various countries, including China, few studies have been conducted to investigate the effectiveness and optimization of such policies in Chinese cities. Han...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
19,360 Views
28 Pages

13 December 2019

This article is a research output presenting a new step for urban tourism development in Thailand. It focused on how a urban tourism development action plan was made in accordance with the sustainable tourism development policy in Thailand, and the o...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,845 Views
9 Pages

15 August 2016

The unprecedented wave of global urbanization has exerted increased pressure on urban land and made land-use sustainability an urgent concern. This Special Issue examines patterns, structures, and dynamics of urban land use from the economic, social,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,473 Views
25 Pages

11 September 2015

Urban development bestows a great opportunity to increase sustainability in the built environment as cities are responsible for the majority of environmental impacts. However, the urban development process is fragmented and sub-optimization leads to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
11,360 Views
26 Pages

20 November 2023

Urban social space and sustainable urban development are both prominent areas of research in urban studies. The development of a city is closely tied to the development of its social space. The level of sustainable development in a city can be assess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
548 Views
20 Pages

11 November 2025

As a geographical development mode, can urban agglomeration solve the problem of intensive land use that cannot be solved on the urban scale? What is the degree of balanced development between urbanization and intensive land use? This study construct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,535 Views
35 Pages

Urban Centrality as a Catalyst for City Resilience and Sustainable Development

  • Emad Noaime,
  • Chaham Alalouch,
  • Abdelhakim Mesloub,
  • Haifa Hamdoun,
  • Hela Gnaba and
  • Mohammed Mashary Alnaim

23 June 2025

This study investigates the role of urban centrality in shaping urban form and function, with a specific focus on the city of Hail, Saudi Arabia as a representative case. Urban centrality—defined as the spatial and functional concentration of e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
2,552 Views
18 Pages

29 June 2022

Green development is a significant concept that cannot be ignored in contemporary society. However, in the context of China’s transition from high-speed growth to high-quality development, the complex impact of urban development has brought gre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,812 Views
17 Pages

6 June 2025

Urbanization in African countries entails substantial growth in the urban population and economic development. The interdependent progress of the population and economy significantly impacts the sustainable development of these nations. By constructi...

  • Review
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1 Citations
2,761 Views
24 Pages

6 March 2025

Urban village redevelopment plays an important role in advancing sustainable and inclusive urbanization, aligning with global and national priorities, including China’s five-year plans. Residents’ satisfaction is one of the important meas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,956 Views
15 Pages

19 June 2023

The impact of the digital dividends from Internet development on urban and rural residents is influenced by the existing urban–rural dual structure, resulting in heterogeneous and time-varying impacts on urban–rural consumption inequality...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,062 Views
26 Pages

23 January 2024

To prevent damage to human life and health caused by high temperatures and extreme weather and to promote sustainable urban development, it is necessary to optimize the layout of urban development elements to improve the urban wind–heat environ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,789 Views
19 Pages

5 December 2024

Carbon emissions from transportation account for an increasing proportion of total carbon emissions, and daily travel carbon emissions are an essential part of carbon emissions from transportation. Urban form influences the transportation network lay...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,033 Views
17 Pages

29 April 2016

Urban-rural equalized development (URED) is recognized as strongly contributing to the narrowing of societal, economic, life, and environmental gaps between urban and rural areas and is also an effective way to solve the “three rural issues” of rapid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,938 Views
16 Pages

25 January 2022

Community-based urban development is an inclusive approach for local service provision and management centered on the proactive partnerships between urban communities and local governments. Rooted in the deinstitutionalization of public services, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,908 Views
12 Pages

15 October 2020

Over the past decade there has been a concerted attempt among a growing group of authors to bring together the political science subfields of urban politics and American political development (APD). In this paper, I look at specifically how the compa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,667 Views
13 Pages

27 January 2018

Numerous studies have shown that densely developed and populated urban areas experience significant anthropogenic heat flux and elevated concentrations of air pollutants and CO2, with consequences for human health, thermal comfort, and well-being. Th...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,118 Views
15 Pages

29 October 2017

Land in rural China has been under a separate and closed management system for decades even after the urban land reform that started in the late 1980s. The blurred property rights over rural land have been hindering the rural welfare as surplus rural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,828 Views
15 Pages

29 January 2022

Identifying the effects of urban sprawl on urban development is of strategic importance. This study takes 285 prefecture-level and above cities in China as research samples and empirically analyzes the heterogeneous impact of urban sprawl on economic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
13,976 Views
29 Pages

China: A New Trajectory Prioritizing Rural Rather Than Urban Development?

  • Hongzhang Xu,
  • Jamie Pittock and
  • Katherine A. Daniell

12 May 2021

The adverse effects of rapid urbanization are of global concern. Careful planning for and accommodation of accelerating urbanization and citizenization (i.e., migrants gaining official urban residency) may be the best approach to limit some of the wo...

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