While urban redevelopment has been a global phenomenon for many decades, the
redevelopment of urban villages (villages-in-the-city or chengzhongcun) in China has …

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 …

Urban villages, namely villages encircled by urban environments, are unique phenomena
that proliferated during China's rapid urbanization process, as well as important …

As a vital source of the demographic dividend, migrant workers living in urban villages have
positively contributed to urban economic development and the improvement of urbanization …

This chapter traces the main policies and actions to erase the urban village in Beijing. Based
on site visits to the representative pre-and post-demolition urban villages in Beijing's …

Nairobi has historically been a laboratory for a diverse range of public housing estate
typologies. Through a morphological approach, this paper analyses how Nairobi's estates …

As a crucial part of China's development strategy, the redevelopment of urban villages and
the redevelopment willingness of villagers have attracted considerable scholarly interest …

China is in the transition period of urbanization, and the imbalance of land use generated
during the original rapid development of megacities still exists, resulting in the preservation …

This study aimed to develop an “environment-psychological” safety assessment model for
urban villages. The objective was to create a comprehensive safety evaluation and identify …