Sense of Place within Transience: Reconfiguring housing efficiency and resilience in Sao Paulo’s peripheral urban condition

Sao Paulo, Brazil, a megacity home to 22.4 million inhabitants as of 2022 has “one of the most inequitable distributions of wealth in the world” (Caldeira 1996, 303). In the various districts, the inequality either shouts or whispers its presence. An open city, where the street-scape is the backdrop for social convergence, segregates itself in...

From Energyscape To Energy Justice: Rethink Approaches For A Just Energy Transition: Revitalize the neglected regions through integrated planning: a case study in Changhua, Taiwan

Taiwanese landscape has dramatically changed since 2018, when the Energy Transition White Paper was published. Due to the land limitation, the Taiwanese government has focused on the multifunctional use of land to create renewable energy and maintain the original activities on the ground at the same time, especially on agricultural lands....

Citizen Participation Beyond The Participation Ladder: A Discrete Choice Experiment in a Public Transport Node Context

With the new Environment & Planning Act (Omgevingswet) planned to come into force on the 1^st of July 2023, citizen participation is currently relevant in the Dutch public debate. The Association of Dutch Municipalities (Vereniging Nederlandse Gemeenten) deems citizen participation as important because it enables a comprehensive...

Flush and Splash: Regenerative Capacity for Semarang Urban Water Management

The Flush and Splash project proposes to reconnect the cultural and the natural heritage of the city through the Semarang river watershed. It begins with acknowledging how the Semarang river have been facing continuous landscape degradation despite it being a backbone of the city based on the observation of historical trajectory and site visits....