Abstract This paper asserts the exigency for urban conservation ideals to address social revitalization in urban China. Based on social capital theory and its adaptations, the proposal is an alternative conservation approach, namely social capital-initiated conservation. This approach highlights the decision-making framework of path dependency, functions of different social capital, and their cooperation patterns and …
Abstract Integrated heritage management has become increasingly important for both urban and rural areas, and has now been frequently used as both a philosophy and an approach to revive the decayed areas under various transitional contexts such as rapid urban expansion, economic restructuring, industrial relocation, and globalization. Recent decades have witnessed understandings of heritage value, …
Abstract This book is a contribution of Dr. Han Jie’s PhD thesis in National University of Singapore. Urban conservation in historic quarters has now been frequently used as a tool of urban development to trigger the revivals of decayed urban historic areas under various contexts. Particularly in China during the last two decades, with selective …
Abstract This paper firstly introduces briefly the Catholic Dominican missionaries in the region of southern Fo-kien,China. Through historical study combined with fieldwork, it examines the architectural characters of modern Catholic Churches in Southern Fo-kien via the angle of hierachy of the Catholic Dominican churches, and highllights the necessity to explore the process of localization of …
Abstract Environmental Psychology states that restoration and environmental preference could be explained by referring to our evolutionary past, or taking into account some of the universal features of the place. This contribution shows an alternative point of view, focusing on the concepts of flow. This chapter focuses on a new framework aiming to establish a …
Abstract This chapter proposes innovative paths of interaction between design sciences and psychology, highlighting man-environment transaction models that could be integrated into design practices through the aid of urban simulation techniques. In particular, it is argued that designers mainly base their activity on implicit models coming from the behaviorist and cognitive psychological tradition, criticized as …
Abstract The paper focuses on the design and development of an Augmented Reality (AR) app for public participation in urban transformations. The focus of the paper is the first phase of the AR4CUP project, which was dedicated to interviewing relevant stakeholders, i.e. Real Estate Developers, Architectural Firms, Public Administrations. The goal was to explore the …
Abstract The demographic aging and the evolution of lifestyles require new strategies to promote the well-being and active aging of elderly. Active aging depends on many factors: some of these are related to objective data such as physical environment, others are personal elements; it is important to improve environmental physical factors to encourage personal attitudes …
Abstract This open access book examines collaborative approaches to urban transformation processes and guides smart co-design applications in such contexts. It presents a selection of co-design methods that can be fruitfully integrated with mobile applications, focusing on the CitySense app, the result of two H2020 EU Projects. This innovative solution favours a virtuous co-creation process …
Abstract A sweeping view of the new town movement as a global phenomenon. From Tapiola in Finland to Islamabad in Pakistan, Cergy-Pontoise in France to Irvine in California, Wakeman unspools a masterly account of the golden age of new towns, exploring their utopian qualities and investigating what these towns can tell us about contemporary modernization …
