Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory
and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear …

Cities in the context of what is considered as the Global South are experiencing rapid
urbanisation through which various villages have been incorporated into the city and …

Village settlements in peri-urban areas have largely been transformed into dense
neighbourhoods in the process of rapid urbanisation and become Villages-in-the-City …

An urban village is an erstwhile rural village enveloped by the formal city yet retaining
distinct social and morphological characteristics. Fragmentary formal integration and …

Informal urbanism has been generally studied within social, economic and political
frameworks, yet little is known of how it performs in terms of urban vitality. The aim of this …

In this article, we present a novel hybrid framework, which integrates spatial-temporal
semantic segmentation with postclassification relearning, for multitemporal land use and …

Urban villages play an important role in providing affordable housing to urban migrants in
Chinese cities. They are considered as supplementary to the dual rural-urban system in …

Highlights•This paper examines and compare the morphologies of Villages-in-the-City in
Kunming in China and Hanoi in Vietnam.•The diverse practices and small scale tactics …

The public/private interface is a zone that mediates private functions from the publicness of
street life. An interface's adaptive capacities and immediate effect on public life make it …

Urban vitality is the key element of sustainable urban development. This paper aims to
explore the relationship between urban vitality and the existing built-up environment of the …