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An Analysis of Patterns of Public Engagement in China's Community Micro-rehabilitation Projects: A Case Study of Guangzhou (2023)
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With the development of inventory planning and the contradiction between land supply and demand, urban renewal development has been gradually replacing reconstruction in China's community redevelopment projects. Such projects need multiple stakeholde... Read More about An Analysis of Patterns of Public Engagement in China's Community Micro-rehabilitation Projects: A Case Study of Guangzhou.

Directing reused industrial heritage to public taste: the case of 1933 Old Millfun, Shanghai (2023)
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Industrial heritage carries the task of not only preserving and inheriting historical culture, but also solving the homogenization of the historical area. The culture cannot be passed on without public participation; people are not only creators but... Read More about Directing reused industrial heritage to public taste: the case of 1933 Old Millfun, Shanghai.

The Spatial Transformation of the Villages around Chang’an Cultural Heritage Site Based on Actor Network Theory (2023)
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The villages around a Cultural Heritage Site (CHS), despite being influenced by long-term restrictive conservation policies for protecting their heritage’s integrity, are often excluded from heritage recognition. They do, however, have opportunities... Read More about The Spatial Transformation of the Villages around Chang’an Cultural Heritage Site Based on Actor Network Theory.

Practical challenges of urban regeneration in China (2023)
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Exploring Immersive Co-Design: Comparing Human Interaction in Real and Virtual Elevated Urban Spaces in London (2023)
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Virtual reality (VR) technology has the potential to revolutionize public engagement in the design of urban projects, leading to more sustainable and inclusive environments. This research scrutinizes this potential through a study of elevated urban s... Read More about Exploring Immersive Co-Design: Comparing Human Interaction in Real and Virtual Elevated Urban Spaces in London.

Enhancing Public Engagement in Architectural Design: A Comparative Analysis of Advanced Virtual Reality Approaches in Building Information Modeling and Gamification Techniques (2023)
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Purpose: This paper investigates the potential of virtual reality (VR) technologies—specifically, building information modeling (BIM) (“Autodesk Revit”) and game engines (“Unreal Engine”)—to enhance public involvement in the design and execution of a... Read More about Enhancing Public Engagement in Architectural Design: A Comparative Analysis of Advanced Virtual Reality Approaches in Building Information Modeling and Gamification Techniques.

Limitations of institutional dimension in existing sustainability assessment tools: From the perspective of territory (2023)
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Cities face considerable fundamental sustainability challenges, and scholars have developed many sustainability assessment tools (SATs) to assess and address these problems. As an important pillar of the tools, the institutional dimension, though add... Read More about Limitations of institutional dimension in existing sustainability assessment tools: From the perspective of territory.

From Maslow to Architectural Spaces: The Assessment of Reusing Old Industrial Buildings (2022)
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In many cases, the purpose of reusing old industrial buildings is to serve the public. Converting a building that had a particular function and is unfamiliar to the public to a civic building is a great challenge. Significantly, the public’s curiosit... Read More about From Maslow to Architectural Spaces: The Assessment of Reusing Old Industrial Buildings.

Research on the Design of Community Museums Based on the Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Method (2022)
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The new museum movement of the twentieth century has driven the development of the form and function of museums around the world. Museums began to be actively open to the public, and some new concepts of museums, such as eco-museums and community mus... Read More about Research on the Design of Community Museums Based on the Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Method.

An Analysis of Residents’ Social Profiles Influencing Their Participation in Community Micro-Regeneration Projects in China: A Case Study of Yongtai Community, Guangzhou (2022)
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Urban regeneration has become one of the most effective ways to develop urban areas that have declined. Compared with other types of urban regeneration, community micro-regeneration is characterised by scattered stakeholders. Existing studies on publ... Read More about An Analysis of Residents’ Social Profiles Influencing Their Participation in Community Micro-Regeneration Projects in China: A Case Study of Yongtai Community, Guangzhou.

Implementations of China’s New-Type Urbanisation: A Comparative Analysis between Targets and Practices of Key Elements’ Policies (2022)
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China’s new-type urbanisation, as a national strategy, is one of the reasons why the leap in development has been made in the last decade. Existing studies mainly focus on the status and outcomes of china’s new-type urbanisation while stressing not e... Read More about Implementations of China’s New-Type Urbanisation: A Comparative Analysis between Targets and Practices of Key Elements’ Policies.

Perception of street vendors and their effect on urban settings in Portobello Road, London (2021)
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Purpose: Street vendors create a vital urban street and a significant and important part of our urban areas are streets, they cater to our leisure, social and functional needs. There are many debates concerning street vendors; on one hand, there are... Read More about Perception of street vendors and their effect on urban settings in Portobello Road, London.

Informal Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Student Preferences and Activities (2021)
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Informal learning spaces play a significant role in enriching student experiences in learning environments. Such spaces are becoming more common, resulting in a change to the spatial configuration of built environments in higher education. However, p... Read More about Informal Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Student Preferences and Activities.

Production of Space in Traditional Towns and Villages against the Backdrop of “Chinese Characteristics”: A Study of Rural Form Transformation in Huizhou (2021)
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Traditional towns and villages in China have experienced profound formal transformation in recent years as a result of national political policies promoting rural development. By analyzing how this new production of space reflects efforts to achieve... Read More about Production of Space in Traditional Towns and Villages against the Backdrop of “Chinese Characteristics”: A Study of Rural Form Transformation in Huizhou.

Generating prototypical residential building geometry models using a new hybrid approach (2021)
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Building prototyping has regularly been used in building performance analyses with statistically feasible models. The novelty of this research involves a new hybrid approach combining stratified sampling and k-means clustering to establish building g... Read More about Generating prototypical residential building geometry models using a new hybrid approach.

Defining the Distinctiveness of Urban Heritage Identity: Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand (2021)
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Distinctiveness is a fundamental part of defining place identity. This paper aims to define the identity of place through the distinctiveness of the urban heritage of Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand. Chiang Mai Old City has unprecedented levels of dive... Read More about Defining the Distinctiveness of Urban Heritage Identity: Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand.

Spatial openness and student activities in an atrium: A parametric evaluation of a social informal learning environment (2020)
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The use of atria for students' informal learning activities is becoming a common architectural design strategy in contemporary higher education buildings, especially in dense urban settings. However, while researchers have focused on the relationship... Read More about Spatial openness and student activities in an atrium: A parametric evaluation of a social informal learning environment.

Rethinking legibility in the era of digital mobile maps: an empirical study (2020)
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This paper examines the role of environmental legibility in an era where digital mobile maps guide many everyday journeys. This paper presents data from a real-world navigational experiment, where participants followed urban routes either by using di... Read More about Rethinking legibility in the era of digital mobile maps: an empirical study.

Urban entrepeneurialism and sustainable development: a comparative analysis of Chinese eco-developments (2019)
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Focusing upon the strategic entrepreneurial planning of local government, this paper presents a critical analysis of the variability of Chinese urban sustainable development projects. In recent years, state entrepreneurialism and notions of (urban) s... Read More about Urban entrepeneurialism and sustainable development: a comparative analysis of Chinese eco-developments.

Examining three roles of urban “portals” in their relationship with “places” using social media photographs (2019)
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Portals are the transition spaces between paths and places in an urban environment such as the entrance to a square from a connecting street. This paper aims to explore different forms of portals by considering their relationship with places. In doin... Read More about Examining three roles of urban “portals” in their relationship with “places” using social media photographs.