Urban villages are typical informal settlements in Chinese cities where rural villages were
gradually surrounded by urban built environments during urbanisation. In the era of urban …

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 …

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

Public/private interfaces play a key role in neighbourhood liveliness, economic exchange,
safety, identity, and social life. In informal settlements, interfaces play additional roles in the …

Built vernacular heritage as a driving force for local development, its effective stewardship
could contribute to the sustainability of heritage resource and local development. This paper …

Nowadays cities face numerous challenges amplified to build necessary urban municipal
and community capacity to ensure sustainability transformation to respond to the local and …

Appropriation of public space is a widespread trope of informal urbanism, attributed with
supporting community bonds and economic livelihoods. Yet, appropriations remain confined …

There have been numerous attempts to identify what makes the ground floor interfaces of
street edges engaging for pedestrians. Their subdivision has often been highlighted as …

Urbanizing villages are erstwhile rural villages that are spatially enveloped and are
characterized by their dual relation to the state, which expresses itself as an issue of …

This paper explores the production of space in the villages-in-the-city (ViCs) through a
morphological perspective. During the urbanization process, rural villages originally located …