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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…
Ajit Shrivastav, Pranjal Sigdel
Green space and subjective well-being have been taken as a prior issue in developed countries. Developed countries ha ve carried on this issue along with development in urban areas and also connect ed with the life of people. Through the use of green space, t…
Fortunatus Bahendwa, Henry Rimisho, Angelica Katama
Street and the activities bound within it associate the social, cultural, economic and spatial significance with walking, apart from its mobility aspect of moving from point A to B. The conventional requirement for street design provide s for distinctive and…
Lin Ma, Hongtao Wang, Bing Liu
Green space accessibility can be used to measure the potential of green space to provide services to residents. Taking urban community as the basic unit, using GIS software and combining with the distribution of road network and population , convenience of ev…
Manuel R. González Herrera, Mercedes A. Rodríguez Rodríguez, Silvia Giralt Escobar, Elizabeth A. Mackay
The growing global concern for sustainable and alternative tourism development has strengthened the scientific research and management of tourist destinations. In this context, the objective of this study is to characterize the tourism system of the city of S…
Mohsen Dhieb, Mohammed Al-Amri, Abdelhamed Jamil
The “Technological Transition” has had a tremendous impact on cartographic processes and outputs. Atlases, whether national, regional or urban, were affected as they moved from a static to an animated and interactive era. The overall posi tive development, co…
Linying Zhou, Yuanying Jiang
We can say that enhancing the capacity and functionality of urbanization is the key to China’s development. However, the urbanization development in various regions of China is unbalanced, especially in the southwestern ethnic region with relatively lagging b…
Francess Dufie Azumah, Joana Obeng Nyarko, Samuel Krampah, John Onzaberigu Nachinaab
For effective crime control, the roles of informants are critical. The police and community members’ relation is needed for the police continuous reliance on informants’ information on crime. This has been the principle for fighting crime in many parts of the…
Peter Nientied, Sotir Dhamo, Dorina Papa, Merita Toska
Little is known about place attachment in the Balkans. This study aims to start filling this gap. After a contextualization of place attachment studies in the Balkans and its relevance for research and practice, a brief review of theory is offered. Then the m…
Osama Hidayat, Yoshitaka Kajita
As a response to the challenge of rapid growth of urbanization and lack of reliable data for urban planning and management, especially in the developing countries, this paper evaluates land use change and urban spatial expansion, from 1970’s to 2018, in Kabul…
Joseph Mukasa Lusugga Kironde
Given the need to scale the regularization of the many informal areas growing rapidly in African cities, this paper presents the experience, from efforts to regularize a mixed household income and mixed land use unplanned area called Makongo Juu in Dar es Sal…
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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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