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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…
Abdelkhalek I. Alastal, Raed A. Salha, Maher A. El-Hallaq
This study aims to promote sustainable urban development by adopting the smart city approach by identifying the concept of smart cities in the reality of the cities of Gaza Strip, considering Khan Younis city as a case study. It also focuses on formulating a…
Paulo Henrique Trombetta Zannin, Mirrê Liluz Milanês, Marcus Vinícius Manfrin De Oliveira Filho
An evaluation was made of the acoustic environment of the Green Line North (GLN) by noise mapping calculations. In addition, the equivalent sound pressure levels, L eq , that reach the facades of a residential building and a hospital located along the GLN , w…
Jun Hu, Xiaona Feng, Mu Zhang, Jing Luo
As a challenging topic in tourism, the authenticity of the cultural heritage represents the value and attraction of heritage. With tourism development, scholars have called for the authenticity perception of cultural heritage which still stays at the conceptu…
Pei Zhang
Underground street refers to a street built under a busy business district or a crowding center in a city, providing underground sidewalks for urban residents, opening shops and arranging various service facilities on both sides. Starting with the definition…
Negar Ahmadpoor, Sina Shahab
Spatial cognition has become an increasingly important area of study since it represents a major type of human knowledge with considerable practical significance. The general assumption is that people’s spatial knowledge form s people’s spatial behaviour, suc…
Aristide Yemmafouo
Street vending has a strong and latent structuring power, supported by distribution networks which exploit informal economies. It is regarded as a terminal of a massive supply of goods and their commercialisation in Southern Cities. Intermediate cities such a…
Verónica Lorena Andrade Sierra, Xuan Feng
The oceanic islands are well known for their high biodiversity where the dynamic integration of the ecosystems inside the populated islands is such as a living laboratory of ecological and social relations of interdependence. Oceanic islands are experimenting…
Ally Namangaya
Increasingly Geographical Information System (GIS) has been seen as an important infrastructure component for revenue enhancement and urban development management as used for property identification, verification, taxation and spatial development governance.…
Safiullah Rohani, Wenjun Ma
Urban development programming counted one of the major important stages of planning and design. Urban projects process still has not enough consideration to urban development programming stage. This step sometimes missed in urban development projects or confu…
Tahmina Khan, Michael Anderson, Aschalew Kassu
Land use changes affect travel demand, resulting in the need to expand transportation infrastructure. Unfortunately, an inevitable consequence of urban sprawl, the spreading of a city to suburbs and outskirts, is the creation of auto-dependent development. La…
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