Vol. 30 No. 1 (2019)

In recent years, China

While urban developers plan to mobilize residents by reinforcing middle-class values, including settling them into urban satellites and offering career development courses, residents feel pleased with the housing opportunities but do not express interest in career advancement courses. From fieldwork observations and in-depth interviews with 35 female residents in a low-income urban satellite neighborhood (Zubeyde Hanim) in Izmir, Turkey, and by focusing on residents

This paper looks into a new policy framework of the Seoul Metropolitan Government that aims to create a new urban governance and use a citizens

This paper explores the relations between order and informality by focusing on the rules by which the physical form and structure evolve and is shaped in informal settlements. Central to improved planning and management of informal settlements and the city generally is a deeper understanding of what constitutes order and the underlying rules by which the physical ordering of densely populated informal settlements takes place. This is important as the existing spatial and related patterns in informal settlements are portrayed as chaotic, dysfunctional, and unplanned, with many residents seen…

The presence of a university in a city not only affects the activities of its citizens but also its physical environment. The establishment of a number of university campuses at the end of the 1980s in Depok caused a significant transformation of the architecture of the city. This paper focuses on the process and pattern of the transformation of the architecture of Depok city that have occurred in the areas surrounding the university campus, and the effect on its physical environment. The method of urban typo-morphology study was used to investigate the transformation process and pattern of…