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Current Urban Studies (CUS) is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancement in the study of urban studies. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas…
Sadek Saad
Authori tarian placeless projects after 2017 introduced a significant shift in Cairo’s linguistic landscape; giant streets and electronic billboards, banne rs, and signs co-shaped the city’s global image. Promoting English and bilingualism (English-Arabic) cr…
Shiyuan Wang, Kunyi Zhang, Liang Lang
Tianjin Street is the most well-known traditional commercial street in Dalian. Since its establishment in 1909, it has witnessed the development of Dalian for more than a hundred years. In the 1980s, Tianjin Street became the busiest commercial street in Dali…
Ronald McGill
This paper focuses on the green urban development paradigm. Its inspiration is the work of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). It cites perspectives developed by GGGI HQ in Seoul, Korea, enriched by its praxis in Uganda. The latter is through the Europe…
Bernardino Romano, Camilla Sette, Francesco Zullo, Cristina Montaldi
An effective response to the current international and EU guidelines of limiting land take and desirable reversal of the phenomenon, is possible for Italy only if it succeeds in setting up centralized regional direction structures for settlement transformatio…
Ali Mohammed Ajlan, Abdullah Mohammed Al Abed
The purpose of this research was to create a model that contributes to the transformation of Riyadh into a sustainable smart city, as well as to assess the extent to which Riyadh meets the requirements of smart cities in light of the proposed model. To achiev…
Eissa Alshammari, Azimah Abdul Rahman, Ruslan Rainis, Nurhafizul Abu Seri, Noor Fazeera Ahmad Fuzi
The issue of Land Use (LU) change has received considerable critical attention because it is one of the most significant factors caused by human activities worldwide. Recent critical changes in this direction have affected urban hydrology. LU change affects w…
David J. Edelman
This article brings the contemporary thinking and practice of Urban Environmental Management (UEM) to the solution of current and persistent environmental problems in Casablanca, Morocco. Casablanca is the largest city of Morocco and the country’s economic an…
Laison S. Kaganga
Urbanisation is a powerful force for human development and progress in most cities. Numerous recent studies have shown that rapid urbanisation taking place in most cities of developing countries is associated with the destruction of livelihood assets in the p…
Ardeshir Faghri
The 2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Document, published by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), reports sea level along the US coastline is projected to rise, on average, 10 - 12 inches (0.25 - 0.30 meters) in the next 30 years (2020 -…
Babak Mirzazadeh
Stop frequency prediction model is one of the components of the activity-based travel demand models. Most of the previous studies have considered s tops during commutes regardless of their purposes. This approach doe s not yield the contribution of the explan…
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