Sustainable urbanism involves a wide range of issues, starting with the building unit and
leading up to the city scale under the discourse of sustainability, including the four main …

Providing fresh water is a serious problem in many counties due to serious water shortages
in many countries. At the same time, population growth increases the need for the freshwater …

Today, one in two people live in urban environments, and this number is expected to rise.
Urban ecology is among the main concepts of the ecological urban planning agenda for …

The largest coastal aquifer in northwestern Cyprus is the Morphou aquifer. The objective of
the current study was to evaluate the quality of the groundwater and its suitability for drinking …

Greyfields are construction sites that emerge from the expansion of cities towards rural
settings. They are unused structures in settlement areas that negatively impact the habitats …

Urban green spaces (UGS) are one of the most important issues regarding the sustainability
of a city. In this study, we aimed to determine the effect of UGS on the historical urban texture …

Duhok city faced many challenges in the last decades because of urban and population
growth especially in the residential sector because there is shortage in providing housing …

Besides Nicosia, there are four main settlements in North Cyprus: Kyrenia, Famagusta,
Trikomo and Morphou. Kyrenia is one of the most important ones preferred by local and …

Greyfields are construction sites that emerge from the expansion of cities towards rural
settings. They are unused structures in settlement areas that negatively impact the habitats …

Brownfield areas are hazardous areas that arise as a result of the disuse of industrial,
commercial, and residential buildings, which pose an obstacle to planning and decision …