Journal of Urban Planning and Development: Recent submissions
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Factors Affecting Urban Resilience and Sustainability: Case of Slum Dwellers in Islamabad, Pakistan
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)This study aims to determine and analyze the factors that are associated with urban resilience and sustainability for the slum inhabitants of Islamabad, Pakistan. This study will adopt a quantitative design to study the ... -
Comparative Study of Cultural Space Characteristics: Inside Areas of Xi’an 2nd Ring Road, China, and Manhattan Borough
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)As one of the key factors of urban development, cultural space plays a crucial role in highlighting urban characteristics and inheriting urban culture. A comparative study of the core built-up areas in Xi’an and New York ... -
Examining the Impacts of Logistics Sprawl on Freight Transportation in Indian Cities: Implications for Planning and Sustainable Development
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)The relocation of logistics facilities toward the periphery of urban areas—that is, logistics sprawl—is a major challenge for policymakers due to the impacts on the economic geography of suburban areas and associated changes ... -
Improving Genetic Algorithms for Optimal Land-Use Allocation
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)Land-use allocation (LUA) is a spatial optimization problem for urban planning in the future. The solution to this problem could be enhancing the effectiveness of optimization algorithms that create a balance between urban ... -
Effect of Urban Transformation and the <i>Age-Friendly City</i> Strategy on the Improvement of Residents’ Subjective Well-Being: Simulation Based on the Scenario Method
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)Hosting large conferences and events often facilitates the transformation of a city by the government. Before the 9th BRICS Summit, the local government launched a systematic urban renovation project, providing a feasible ... -
Bilevel Optimization Model Considering Modal Split for Number and Location of Gates in a Superblock
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)Superblocks are city blocks whose size is significantly larger than average for a city block. They are considered to be close if they only have a few gates connecting the pedestrian and car traffic inside with that outside ... -
Bilevel Mixed Land Use–Transportation Model Based on Urban Road Network Balance
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)The aim of this work is to investigate the interaction between mixed land use patterns and urban road structures based on the balance theory of complex networks. An approach for extracting a signed network from a weighted ... -
Characteristics of the Spatiotemporal Changes in Urban Agglomeration in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, China
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)The Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area urban agglomeration, one of the world’s four largest bay area urban agglomerations, occupies an important position in China’s national development. In this paper, the expansion ... -
Quantitative Evaluation of Coordinated Development between Ecological and Economic Systems in a Coal-Intensive City in China
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)This study assessed the dynamic variations in ecosystem service value (ESV) in response to land-use changes under rapid urbanization and evaluated the coordinated relationship between economic development and ecological ... -
Psychosocial Factors of Public Transport Users and Social Inclusion Implications among Older Women in Pakistan
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)Mobility is a critical factor in promoting social sustainability. Previous studies have confirmed the critical psychological determinants that influence individual mobility. However, these studies rarely considered the ... -
Performance-Based Transportation and Land Use Integrated Optimization Model with Degradable Capacity and Stochastic Demand
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)Traditionally, urban land use planning belongs to urban planning and transportation infrastructure construction belongs to transportation planning. However, it is widely recognized that the integrated optimization of urban ... -
Evaluation of the Effects of Transit Subsidy Policy on Households' Travel Behaviors: Computable General Equilibrium Approach
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)The urban form and transportation cycle are common yet crucial factors for urban managers and transportation planners to devise effective transportation management strategies. This paper considers the effects of transit ... -
Commuters' Preference to Walk: Developing a Structural Equation Model Considering Current Amount of Walking and Subjective and Environmental Factors
(ASCE, 12/1/2021)One important research question related to walking for transportation is whether people like to walk more or not. Past research on walking-related travel behavior has mainly considered objective measures of walking, ... -
Paying for Travel Distance and Time Saving: Transit Fare and Benefit Mismatch and Its Justice Implications
(ASCE, 9/1/2021)Transit fares affect not only whether people are not overburdened with their expenditure on transit services but also whether people can get reasonable benefits from transit services for what they pay. Prevalence of various ... -
Purchase Motivation, Landscape Preference, and Housing Prices: Quantile Hedonic Analysis in Guangzhou, China
(ASCE, 9/1/2021)Urban landscapes are important factors that affect housing prices, and significant differences between landscape preferences of various homebuyers may be observed because of the different reasons for purchasing a house ... -
Transportation Development, Spatiotemporal Convergence, and Urban Land Use: Study of the Opening of High-Speed Rails in the Yangtze River Delta, China
(ASCE, 9/1/2021)The rapid development of high-speed rail (HSR) has accelerated urbanization of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). However, the impacts of HSR opening, opening time of HSR, and heterogeneity effects of HSR stations’ characteristics ... -
Analysis of Factors Affecting the Coordinated Development of Urbanization and the Ecological Resource Environment in Southwest China Based on Data Mining
(ASCE, 9/1/2021)Urbanization and the ecological resource environment are mutually influential and interdependent, and their coordinated development is the key to the sustainable development of urbanization. Based on a coupling degree ... -
Research on Reducing Carbon Consumption in Residential Community Spaces as Influenced by Microclimate Environments
(ASCE, 9/1/2021)This paper studies the following influencing factors of microclimate environments: (1) outdoor wind environments and thermal environments of residential communities; (2) outdoor sunlight environments of residential ... -
Estimating Bicycle Demand in the Austin, Texas Area: Role of a Bikeability Index
(ASCE, 9/1/2021)This study contributes to research and practice by demonstrating the use of a composite measure, a bikeability index, to facilitate the use of and improve the performance of direct demand models for bicycle traffic, ... -
Improvement of Outdoor Space Microclimate in Hot Arid Regions Using Solar Pavilions
(ASCE, 9/1/2021)Outdoor spaces are important to sustainable cities as they accommodate different types of activities and contribute to the livability of the urban areas. The enjoyment of outdoor spaces requires a comfortable thermal ...