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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…
Jeffrey S. Smith, Abigaile Molzer
Baby Boomers have impacted American society at every stage in their life. As the Silver Tsunami approaches advanced age, they are faced with numerous elder care options. Two of the most popular are aging in place and living in a Life Plan Community (LPC). Kno…
Stella Manika
The phenomenon of urban shrinkage is multidimensional, concerning regions, cities, towns, or metropolitan areas that are facing population reductions and simultaneously intense economic and social transformations. Greek cities are experiencing strong signs of…
Mohsen Dhieb
In geographical research, the use of “chorems” has been presented as a meaningful graphical modeling method of geographical spaces ( Brunet, 1980 ) . This method summarizes the specific characters and overall design of one given space whatever its configurati…
Abdullah Addas, Ghassan Alserayhi
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is looking to enhance the quality of life in its cities by making the cities livable places. This study focuses on the changes that need to be made to the street design in Saudi Arabia to achieve the goals of the 2030 vision. This…
Mohamed Marou, Said Azelmad
The abuse in public land assets with no particular effort to renew it, and the implementation of Law 25/90 1 have led to a dizzying rise in land values that continue to affect urban land on a sustainable level. The following situation is combined with the sca…
Emmanuel Ochola Matsaba, Ines Langer, Aggrey Ochieng Adimo, John Bosco Mukundi, John Mwibanda Wesonga
Nairobi city in Kenya is an example of the many cities in Africa experiencing rapid growth and too many environmental impacts, including the urban heat islands (UHI) phenomenon. UHI develops and escalates under outrageous hot periods, such as during heatwave,…
Abdullah Addas
Public open spaces offer social, health, environmental and economic benefits to cities and their residents. As planners seek to realize these benefits and respond to human demand, different approaches have emerged; ranging from the opportunistic use of land a…
Gegentana  , Longge Di, Tinghua Hu, Xiaoqing Hu, Yuanjing Yin
As the carrier of thousands of years of farming culture in China, the value of traditional villages is self-evident, with the rapid development of cities, the problem of hollowing out villages is becoming more and more serious, and religious traditional villa…
Njiiri Wallace, Mugwima Bernard, Karanja Dennis
Contemporary attitudes shaping urban areas are not always sympathetic to the historic character of built heritage, meaning heritage contexts are subject to loss of scale, visual quality and associated values. This study sought to identify attitudes associated…
Tende Renz Tichafogwe, Ndjounguep Juscar
Land grabbing from small farm holders of Nguti is the major cause of environmental degradation and forest right violation. This article posits how the rural communities of Nguti are experiencing a range of political skirmishes resulting from large scale land…
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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… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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