Air pollution caused by inhalable particulate matter seriously threatens public health and the sustainable development of cities. Previous studies have shown that features of the built environment are closely related to concentrations of inhalable particulate matter, but studies employing different scales and zoning methods have yielded inconsistent findings, and the impacts of possible modifiable areal unit problems (MAUP) have seldom been considered. Here, we evaluated the influence of various built environment parameters, including land use indicators and building form indicators, on air quality in the Gulou District of Nanjing, China. We used a multiple linear regression approach to analyze high-precision urban PM2.5 and PM10 concentration data collected using hand-held instruments. By controlling scale and zoning methods from the block scale of 500 meters to 3000 meters, we explored scale and zoning effects and their interactions. We found: 1) As scale increases, the number of built environment parameters that has a significant impact on pollutant concentrations decreases, and the degree of model fitting first increases before decreasing. Zoning method has a relatively small impact on the model; 2) The proportion of land area used for green space and water systems, roads, public service facilities, and municipal facilities and average building height and density are six important factors that affect changes in PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations.

Urban streets are an important space for residents' daily life, and their green visual level plays an important role in improving residents' travel and living environment. Therefore, the evaluation methods and means of street greening also need to be continuously refined and supplemented. From the perspective of dynamic perception, this article takes Zhongshan District, Dalian City as the research area. Firstly, a dynamic perception perspective street green view index measurement model was constructed by introducing indicators including green quantity, volatility index, and continuous index. Secondly, we selected some streets in Zhongshan District, Dalian City for the application of the measurement model, and obtained objective quantitative measurement results. Finally, we evaluated street greening combined with subjective perception surveys to verify the proposed indicators. The results indicate that green quantity are important factors affecting the visual quality of streets. Lower volatility index and continuous index can achieve better visual quality. The research has further improved the green space measurement method, providing scientific basis for the refined design of urban green spaces.

As global urbanization accelerates, rural decline has become a widespread concern. The surge in peri-urban tourism in China has presented opportunities for historical villages near major cities. However, the prevalent homogenized construction model poses concealed threats to their sustainable growth. Resilience theory provides a comprehensive perspective to address these challenges. Grounded in rural resilience theory, this study compares two villages in Nanjing, China. Differences in their renewal procedures, tourist evaluations, and villagers' perceptions are highlighted. The resilience factors are summarized and extracted from three aspects—resources, morphology, and function—and the differences in the transformation, adaptation, and development paths between the two villages are revealed. Subsequently, a resilience-building trajectory for peri-urban tourism villages is proposed for their sustainable development.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) significantly contribute to global mortality, and few studies have explored the relationship between walkability and cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRFs) especially in Japan. Previous research often focused on gender differences without considering gender, physical activity (PA) status, and fracture history simultaneously. Given Japan’s aging population and the unique impact of the built environment on older adults, it is crucial to examine the relationship between neighborhood walkability and CMRFs in this demographic. In this study, we aimed to clarify the association between neighborhood walkability and four cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRFs) among Japanese older adults and to see if these associations differ by gender, physical activity (PA) status, and fracture history. We used data from 39,577 older adults in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, from 2021, to measure residential neighborhood walkability. We analyzed the associations between the walkability index and the four CMRFs (obesity, type-2 diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and hypertension) using SPSS. The results revealed significant associations between walkability and the CMRFs among Japanese older adults. Furthermore, the association varied not only across gender, PA status, and fracture history but also among different CMRFs. This study found the strongest association between walkability and hypertension. The associations between walkability and the CMRFs were observed primarily in physically inactive men, physically active women, and non-fractured women. Moreover, unexpected findings revealed a significant association between higher walkability and increased risks of obesity and type-2 diabetes mellitus in physically inactive men, as well as dyslipidemia in physically inactive men, fractured men, and non-fractured men. These findings highlight the complex effects of walkable environments on the cardiometabolic health of Japanese older adults. This study emphasizes the importance of promoting PA and preventing falls and fractures to reduce the risk of CVDs among older adults.

This study employed structural equation modeling to analyze the impact of the "rural living program" on rural decline, population decrease, and the necessity of the program. The rural living program, a social program that provides participants with opportunities to reside in rural areas for short or long periods and form relationships with the local community, has been recognized as a key approach to securing the "relational population" in response to rural extinction. Analyzing young people in their 20s and 30s, who have a high potential as a relational population due to recent migration and increased interest in rural areas, the following findings were observed. Firstly, the rural living program facilitated a shift in perception among young people toward rural areas. Particularly, it had a significant impact on their positive perception of the physical environment of underdeveloped rural areas. Secondly, it was observed that the sense of community formed through the program influenced the formation of relational population. Young people formed relationships with the local community and residents, developing a sense of belonging, interaction, and attachment to the area through the program. Thirdly, while the program did not have a direct impact on the formation of relational population, it facilitated the formation of relational population by mediating through the developed sense of community. To validate the results, interviews were conducted with 10 young people who participated in the program, revealing their desire to establish relationships with the local community and their intention to revisit in the future.

Terraced houses are the most popular and dominant type of housing in Malaysia. Its design has remained unchanged despite the evolving needs of society, thus proclaiming the conventional attributes of a typical house. These attributes conform to dynamic conditions through extensive house renovations, resulting in the personalization of the home space. While a strong trajectory of spatial congruence exists, documentation and typological explorations are lacking. This paper explores a typological approach as a design framework in studying the terraced house transformation by discussing its current manipulation strategies towards hypothesizing new potentialities. Typological and spatial patterns are identified by observing transformations in two sets of case studies: ‘Actual’ projects presented in the book Terrace Transformations In The Tropics (2021) and ‘Prototype’ projects proposed in the Sime Darby Concept Home 2030 Competition. The data analysis is interpreted into a series of diagrams, using building anatomy to inform its correlation to the spatial context - establishing a design framework indicating terraced transformation. Findings suggest that the transformation of terraced types and prototypes in Malaysia is motivated by human-centric priorities based on the design framework transformation that integrates (1) agentic attributes through the notion of ‘desire-based design’ manifested in the following aspects: Desire by the Absence of Damage Needs, Home Micro-Economic, Optimizing Space/Maximizing Value, and Personalization-Customization; and (2) adaptive attributes from the eccentric value of ‘void’ driven by ‘composition-forms-programs.’ The study concludes that ‘programmatic’ adaptation is key in driving the transformation, demonstrating a better human-centric approach to exploring the capabilities of future terraced housing in Malaysia.

The paper analyzes Palestinian families’ preferences for housing types and explores changes in their choices after the earthquake of March 2023. The aim is to estimate urban resilience with changes in the housing environment regarding feeling safe. To do so, Nablus City was chosen as a case study due to its location in a seismic area. An empirical study was conducted in the city in traditional (cluster) and contemporary housing (apartment buildings), and thus, two neighborhoods were chosen. The study clarifies the differences between the architectural and urban characteristics of the selected types. Using questionnaires also measures users' satisfaction with their homes and the urban environment regarding safety and its influence on their future housing choices. A sample of 60 householders was chosen to explore the study objectives. The result of the study shows superior satisfaction with contemporary housing in terms of feeling safe due to its good physical conditions but dissatisfaction with many modern concepts such as weak relation with the outdoors and high rising. However, many traditional concepts can still give a safe feeling, like a low-rise environment, fewer units that share common areas, private entrances, and strong relations with outdoor spaces. Hence, the study's main conclusion is that current housing environments fail to provide good urban resiliency with the changing of housing choices after an earthquake in terms of feeling safe. Based on these findings, a discussion was conducted to provide detailed changes in housing choice decisions in Nablus City compared to the previous literature. Updating the current housing types for a much safer environment was also clarified and discussed.

Location information is a critical factor in prioritising development planning. However, the use of maps in the planning process within Indonesian local governments is limited. In development forums such as Musrenbang, a tiered participatory planning process that operates from the village to the national level, information is often presented in tabular form without visual support. This approach lacks the visualisation, aggregation, and synchronisation necessary for effective public deliberation. Therefore, it is necessary to design a spatial-based participatory planning system to enhance tiered participatory planning through improved visualisation. A Participatory GIS (PGIS) for Musrenbang was designed to facilitate community aspirations, enable collaborative discussions, and support tiered planning processes. The PGIS was developed based on inputs collected through interviews, observations, and surveys with Musrenbang participants in Karanganyar District, Central Java, Indonesia. Testing with 50 users indicated that integrating spatial data in Musrenbang increased location awareness, supported knowledge transfer, enhanced collaboration and accommodated the creation of aspiration maps. The PGIS developed in this study contributes a foundational system for participatory spatial planning, establishing a scalable platform suitable for tiered development planning. Implementing development planning forums in other jurisdictions, as well as at provincial and national levels, requires central government regulations. The more comprehensive the coverage of PGIS, the more complex the database design, visualisation methods, and interaction models will need to be, necessitating further study.

"One of the effective factors in improving urban security is crime prevention. Research progress in C.P.T.E.D. requires clarification of theoretical concepts and integrated validation. The resulting research is practically focused on the elements of surveillance, nightlife, and security. With the ever-increasing expansion of cities and the trend of population growth, various problems arise, including an increase in city crime rate. This factor leads to a decrease in the presence of citizens in the city during the day and night. Revitalizing nightlife to increase the sense of security among citizens leads to a decrease in the crime rate and an increase in social cohesion.The purpose of this research is to evaluate the revival of nightlife and the impact of security on nightlife. In the following, it will be explained why creating nightlife increases the sense of security in people. This is because creating nighttime activities in neighbourhoods increases the presence of citizens during different hours of the day and night and catches the attention of observers. This, in turn, induces a sense of security and peace for citizens and people who use the space.The resulting research has been conducted using quantitative methods. The number of case samples for the research was determined using Cochran's formula, resulting in a sample size of 370 people aged above 20 years. The case samples were randomly selected from the population of the Mosalla neighbourhood. Various statistical methods have been employed to examine the relationship between the security component and nightlife. According to the obtained statistical data, 78% of the independent variable (security) has a direct effect on the dependent variable (nightlife)."

India surpasses all other nations in terms of population and about 330 million people reside on or within the 150 KM of the country's coastline which stretches across 9 states and 4 union territories (UTs) cover 7516.6 KM. People who are living in an extremely low elevation seacoast places are no longer safe because of regular rise in sea level due to global warming and other natural and artificial disasters/imbalances. Therefore it is quite difficult to manage and administer the population which are residing in the low-lying areas that are close to the ocean. Therefore an attempt is made in this paper to explore and analyze the low-lying areas and the cities/villages located along Indian coastal states/union territories that are very dangerous to inhabit or depend upon for a livelihood. This study starts by processing the coastal low elevated areas and the same is divided into seven different classes. These seven classes are divided into the ranges like, 0 to 1, 1.1 to 2, 2.1 to 3, 3.1 to 4, 4.1 to 5, 5.1 to 6, and 6.1 to 10 feet respectively. The digital elevation models (DEMs) are used to get the elevation data by class wise using Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques. Further the study continued to examine all other associated geo-spatial data and revealed that the states/union territories such as West Bengal (46), Tamil Nadu (41), Odisha (34), Andhra Pradesh (32), Gujarat (30), Kerala (30), and Andaman and Nicobar islands (25), comprise the majority of cities and villages situated in low elevated areas. The study's findings and analysis are undoubtedly useful for organizing, managing, caring for, and saving the lives of those who are living in the low-lying coastal areas.

Traditional architectural heritage and craftsmanship face global preservation challenges. This study explores transforming Cai Family Houses in Quanzhou, China, into an open-air museum to preserve and showcase traditional craftsmanship. Employing spatial syntax analysis, observational studies, and a craftsmanship inventory, the research reveals significant potential for museum development. Existing spatial configurations align well with anticipated visitor patterns, requiring minimal structural alterations. The site houses a rich array of traditional skills and artifacts suitable for exhibition. An 'Open-air Museum' concept was developed, emphasizing community engagement and adaptive reuse, offering a sustainable conservation model that balances preservation with modern visitorship needs. This approach provides a promising solution for conserving Cai Family Houses and associated cultural heritage, with potential applications to similar sites globally.

Palembang is one of old historical city in Indonesia. It is an old river city, which its riverside settlements become the physical evidences of past riverine culture. Therefore, the existence of the settlements become a determinant for sustainable identity of river city. Previous studies have explored how the people place relationship support the sustainable identity of a certain heritage area. There is limitation in studies which discussing the people place relationship and the sustainable city identity. The paper examined the way people place relationship at old riverside settlement can support the sustainability of Palembang's identity as historical river city through memorability and place attachment. To achieve this aim, paper has two objectives. Firstly, paper investigated the memorability on the history of the old elements. Secondly, paper investigated the place attachment of old building and spaces along the riverside both at city center and riverside settlement. The study used quantitative method. It surveyed the people of six riverside settlements by using questionnaire. Data were analyzed by using factor analysis. Results found the memorability of historical elements located at riverside settlements is relatively lower than the ones at city center. Meanwhile, the attachment is relatively high for historical elements at settlement. Paper also found the most memorable and attached city elements that represent city identity are located at city center. The sustainability identity comes from the integration between physical aspect and historical value of the old urban elements that lead to the high attachment to people. Paper conclude that encouraging place attachment through promoting historical value and place identity of old elements at riverside settlement lead to the recognition of Palembang’s identity as river city. The study enriches the city branding strategy in urban heritage area.

Sustainable urban development is a growing area of research, with cities worldwide facing various economic, social, and environmental challenges due to rapid urbanization. This study provides a comprehensive review of sustainable urban development literature through content analysis and application of artificial intelligence techniques. The objectives of this research are: 1) To conduct a systematic literature review of research published between 2012-2022, analyzing dimensions studied and trends over time and across continents/countries. 2) To utilize BERT to automatically classify articles into sustainable urban development dimensions based on titles and abstracts. A systematic literature review was conducted by collecting data from articles indexed on Google Scholar with the keyword 'sustainable urban development.' The initial search yielded 790 articles, which were screened using predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria, resulting in a final selection of 705 articles. Subsequently, a panel of 30 experts was engaged to refine and prioritize dimensions for analysis. Using the Delphi method, a consensus was reached to identify five key dimensions: environmental-ecological, economic, socio-cultural, political (managerial-institutional), and demographic. Statistical analysis was performed on trends by continent, country, and year. The results show Asia had the largest share of articles, followed by Europe, Africa, North America, South America, and Oceania. Iran, Sweden, Egypt, the US, Brazil, and Australia ranked highest for their continents, respectively. The environmental-ecological dimension received the most attention. Statistical analysis of research trends over ten years across six continents and 92 countries provided novel insights. The BERT model was also able to automatically classify articles with 59% accuracy based on titles, abstracts, and topics, demonstrating its potential to organize vast literature efficiently. In conclusion, this research presents the most comprehensive review of sustainable urban development research to date and introduces an AI technique that can facilitate comparative studies and identification of best practices. The classification of literature into dimensions also provides a framework for structured analysis of trends.

Marketing in Community-Based Tourism (CBT) makes visible the tourist experience and how it benefits local communities. It is important to understand how has been the approach of academic marketing studies in the development of CBT, in order to identify opportunities for future research. The objective of this article is to analyze the research trends associated with marketing in CBT management and future research directions. For this purpose, a bibliometric analysis was developed in the Scopus and ScienceDirect databases from the R Core Team 20201-Bibliometrix software, complemented with the VOSviewer software. The results of the bibliometric analysis of the two databases revealed a total of 855 documents related to community tourism and marketing, among which the relationship with the concepts of sustainability, development and tourist destinations stand out. In conclusion, there is a need to strengthen future lines of research related to CBT and marketing since there are important elements that have not been developed in depth in the research and that require greater relevance in the academy.

Abstract Planning has the power to prevent or reduce many physical social problems associated with urban regeneration By addressing issues such as poor infrastructure lack of public space social inequality planning can also help prevent potential future social problems As a result neighborhoods play a fundamental role in finding solutions to these problems Unfortunately recent rent-oriented urban regeneration practices carried out in Turkey have exacerbated these issues This makes it even more critical to prioritize thoughtful planning in future urban development This study aimed to test the theoretical assumption that different spatial designs produce distinct forms of neighborhood-level relationships through a sense of community in Eskisehir Neighborhood (Turkey) Firstly we analyzed the effect of neighbor relations on the sense of community in residential areas within an urban regeneration project Next we examined a neighborhood located in the same area where the demolition process has not yet begun which still maintains its traditional characteristics According to our findings we concluded that the sense of community has an impact on social interaction community attachment community identity in single-family housing areas whereas neighbor relations in housing estate areas only affect community attachment