Urban and Regional Planning

Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2020

  • City as a System Supported by Artificial Intelligence

    Anna Bazan-Krzywoszańska, Robert Lach, Maria Mrówczyńska

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2020
    Pages: 32-39
    Received: 25 February 2020
    Accepted: 7 April 2020
    Published: 28 April 2020
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    Abstract: The primary objective of urban policy is to strengthen the capacity of cities to develop in such a way as to create an efficient, compact, sustainable and coherent structure, and thus to be strong and competitive. The potential associated with reducing urban flows, combined with effective management and use of natural resources, depends on sustaina... Show More
  • Study on the Compound Path of Living Environment Renovation Under the Background of “Renovation and Restoration” to Old Communities

    Dong Rui

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2020
    Pages: 40-49
    Received: 16 May 2020
    Accepted: 25 May 2020
    Published: 3 June 2020
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    Abstract: As a product of a certain era,the old community is now faced with many serious problems that cannot be completely changed, such as the simple functional structure of space, lacking of community vitality, losing of cultural characteristics and the rupture of historical context. Which make it difficult to adapt to diversified complex residential need... Show More
  • Physical Planning Policies on Lagos Island and Their Effects on Urban Morphology

    Folahan Anthony Adenaike, Akunnaya Pearl Opoko, Roseline Abidemi Kosoko

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2020
    Pages: 50-60
    Received: 5 March 2020
    Accepted: 10 June 2020
    Published: 28 June 2020
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    Abstract: Physical planning is perhaps the strongest tool in the development of the urban form. It is the visible limb of the state that is used to direct and control development. In Lagos State, physical planning is used more in ‘development control” rather than “development planning”. It also comes into use in the many instances of urban renewal. The rapid... Show More
  • The Impacts of Poor Solid Waste Management in Legetafo-Legedadi Town, Oromia, Ethiopia

    Mesfin Assefa, Birhanu Girma

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2020
    Pages: 61-69
    Received: 27 May 2020
    Accepted: 15 June 2020
    Published: 29 June 2020
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    Abstract: Forced, by rapid increases in urban population, municipal administrations in Ethiopia are wrestling with an ever rising problem of solid waste management. In the emerging Legetafo-Legedadi town open and indiscriminate dumping of solid waste is rampant and piles of decaying growing in the garbage remain uncollected. The study focused on an analysis ... Show More
  • The Protection and Activation of Shanxi Jinzhong Historical and Cultural City from the Perspective of Humanity

    Gao Jie, Zhai Hongyu

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2020
    Pages: 70-76
    Received: 1 June 2020
    Accepted: 28 June 2020
    Published: 13 July 2020
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    Abstract: China has a large number of traditional dwellings and a wide range, which truly reflects the production and living conditions, religious beliefs and aesthetic concepts of local residents at that time. It can be said that dwelling are living fossils for studying anthropology and architectural history. However, with the rapid development of the econo... Show More