Mobilities design – towards a research agenda for applied mobilities research

Purpose Information technologies are commonly used in architectural and urban design. The use of these technologies providing support at every stage of the design opens up different perspectives for designers and users. The aim of the study is to obtain user demands for green spaces of a specific district by mining data through social media and to detect the actual green spaces of the same district using applications developed for this purpose. User demands for design decisions and applications of green spaces and the current situation of the study area are evaluated. Design/Methodology/Approach The research is firstly realized through social media, and data obtained from Twitter is analysed in order to evaluate user demands for parks and green spaces of Ataşehir district in İstanbul City. Secondly, all green areas in the same district are detected by using digital maps. Two applications are specifically designed for this research; Tweet Grabber is used for user sentiment analysis on social media and Map Grabber is processed for extraction of green spaces via maps. The total area of the green spaces is compared with the desired area of open and green spaces per user. Findings The user demands and thoughts obtained in the study about the green spaces of the district are compatible with the actual situation of green spaces. It is observed that the users are mostly dissatisfied with the adequacy of green spaces. Designers, politicians, municipalities and all stakeholders can benefit from the obtained user expectations and feedback. Interpreting user demands by mining data through social media enables user participation in design decisions. This research method can be supportive and adaptive in related issues of design for the cities, enabling user participation in architectural and urban design. Research Limitations/Implications Parks and green spaces of Ataşehir district of İstanbul are taken as a case study. Twitter is chosen for mining of data in social media based on parameters such as keywords and location. Social/Practical Implications The impact and support of users in design decisions can be clearly demonstrated by advanced information technologies. Mining data through social media and developed applications will contribute to design decisions and policies for architectural and urban spaces. Originality/Value Tweet Grabber and Map Grabber applications are developed for this research in order to get text based and image based data. The research includes a unique case study for mining data through social media on a specific design issue and target location.

As global urbanization accelerates, cities increasingly shape economic growth and environmental outcomes, making sustainable urban and transport planning critical. Sustainable city branding (SCB) is emerging as a strategic tool that not only enhances a city’s global competitiveness but actively drives urban sustainability by integrating environmental, social, and economic dimensions aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the direct link between SCB and transport planning remains largely unexplored, limiting actionable policy. This study introduces a novel conceptual framework connecting SCB with transport planning, positioning public transportation as a key lever for sustainable urban development. It identifies core interactions between city branding and sustainable mobility, proposes methodologies to evaluate SCB effectiveness, and addresses potential risks, challenges, and research gaps. A policy roadmap for decision-makers based on the framework is outlined. This roadmap is structured into three phases spanning a five-year program. In Phase 1, cities should lay the foundation by integrating SCB into municipal transport and sustainability plans and establishing measurable indicators aligned with the SDGs. Phase 2 focuses on engagement and experimentation, encouraging the creation of participatory branding platforms and the implementation of pilot projects, such as green mobility corridors or climate-resilient transit hubs. Finally, Phase 3 emphasizes monitoring and scaling, utilizing digital technologies for real-time tracking, evaluating pilot outcomes, and expanding successful initiatives based on key performance indicators, including ridership growth, carbon reduction, and citizen engagement. By linking SCB explicitly to transport planning and providing a concrete roadmap, this study offers a unique contribution to both urban sustainability research and practical policy-making, enabling cities to simultaneously strengthen their brand, enhance mobility, and achieve measurable sustainability outcomes.

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Design as fine art concerned with the beautiful and appeal to the eye, just as music appeals to the ear, and the external appearance of urban design and architectural product is only one of several factors which interest architect and urban designer when they judge a building or a city, architecture and urban design as something indivisible, something you can't separate into a number of elements. They aren't produced simply by adding sites, plans , sections and elevations , they are limit by no means well-defined. This study will discusses and explains precisely what architecture and urban design are ,they must be experienced as fine arts. The architect and urban designer work with form and mass just as the sculptor does, and like the painter he works with color, but alone of the three ,his is functional art. The current research tackles the study of urban design and architectural experienced the efficiency of human sense and it's effect on sustainability of historical cities within the designing process. The research discusses the importance of this concept in order to explore the particular problem represented by the unclarity of the concept role in urban design and architectural products, Therefore the problem of the paper was crystallized and its objective and methodology were identified by studying urban design and architectural product experienced as color shapes and it's relation with designer and designing process, reading the determination the theoretical framework, that involved two main items of detailed theoretical field , Which limit the concept in urban design and architecture ,firstly, Then applying operations are submitted which represented by electing the measurement vocabularies and electing the projects in the historical cities and crystallized the hypothesis, secondly, at last discussing the results to submit the conclusions in the end, which showed that the difference in the nature of practicing the concept (Efficiency of human sense and its effect on sustainability of historical cities) depend on many factors like designer's trends and another factors especially in Erbil city in Iraq .

About the Authors. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Becoming an Urban Planner: What Planners Do. Employment in Planning. A Young Profession: Planning Emerges in the Late Nineteenth Century. Urban Planning Is about the Future. Urban Planning Is about Place. Urban Planning Is about Helping Other People Make Decisions. The Planning Process. Buyer Beware: Things You Might Not Like About a Career in Planning. What Kind of Salary Can a Planner Expect to Make? Skills for Becoming an Urban Planner. 2. Becoming an Urban Planner: Education. What Research Shows About Planners' Education. Preparing for a Professional Education. Communicating in Words. Communicating through Pictures. Being Comfortable with Numbers. Drawing, Planning, and Urban Design. Picking a College Major. And on to Graduate School. Choosing the Right Graduate Program. Applying to Graduate School. Financing a Planning Education. Planning Curriculum: Knowledge, Skills, and Values. Specializations. Dual-Degree Options. Alternative Paths. Conclusion. 3. Becoming an Urban Planner: Experience. Informational Interviews. Job Shadowing. Volunteer Experience. Internships. Cooperative Education. Peace Corps and AmeriCorps VISTA. Networking to Break the Ice. 4. Planners' Many Paths. Many Paths into a Planning Career. Who Influenced You? Where Do You Want to Work? Planning Timeframes. At What Geographic Scale Do You Want to Work? What Planning Topics Interest You? Urban Design. Housing Planning and Policy. Economic Development Planning. Historic Preservation Planning. Community Engagement and Empowerment. Environmental and Natural Resources Planning. Geographic Information Systems. Land Use Planning, Law, and Code Enforcement. Transportation Planning. Planning for Sustainability. Emerging Specializations in the Era of Sustainability. Teaching Others to Become Planners. Challenges and Rewards. 5. What Is the Future of Planning? Economic Recession and Planning. Geospatial Technology and Planning. Rediscovering Public Health. Carbon, Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Planning for Sustainable Energy. A Bright Future for Planning. Resources. References. Index.

On a generic level, linking academic education to the practical and community needs is one of the most important criteria for the success of any educational institution, it could be interpreted that Academic institutions offering Architecture & Urban Design programs requires such an important link as many of the academic accreditation processes considers this linkage as one of the most important evaluation criteria for Architectural & Urban Design educational institutions, in addition to the impact that such institutions can have on their local communities. Bridging the gap between the academia and real life experiences is one of the most pressing and challenging agenda facing the Architecture & urban design education in Egypt, especially in the Governmental architecture & urban design schools, considering the large numbers of enrolled students. Unfortunately, most of the Governmental Egyptian architectural institutions continue to practice same old teaching methodologies that have sustained their particular beliefs and paradigms for decades without considering the emerging new variables and requirements. On the other hand, many innovative learning ideas and strategies for teaching Architectural & urban design curriculums are ascending today. Few researches have been made regarding this aspect. The aim of this paper is to highlight the process that is concerned to enhance the urban design education quality, the curriculum and the teaching methods of the Architecture Bachelor program in general with a special focus on Faculty of Fine Arts - Helwan University in Egypt, as a Case study. Focussing on the new didactic tools and applied research components are developed for the bachelor of architecture program, which impart knowledge to understand the current urban issues and urban regeneration. Adding a strong orientation on practice and applied research to the existing curriculum that will lead the students to gain higher awareness towards real urban issues and urban regeneration. The study adopted a methodology, which directly corresponded to the objective stated above based on setting an overview for the local urban design teaching issues. It also analyse the existing problems and limitations in urban design education in Egypt, and as a case study the paper explores and analyse how could the international exposure and experience of students of architecture of the faculty of Fine arts – Helwan University affects their practices, performance and gained skills, in the frame work of the real city lab project which is a cooperation project between the TUB Germany and the college of Fine Arts – Helwan University in Egypt. As well as the authors’ personal teaching experiences in urban design's learning tools, exercises will be presented.

Taking the Syrian city of Homs as its point of departure, this paper aims to suggest some first components of a parametric urban design approach to post-conflict reconstruction focused on scenario building. From analyses of social, physical and environmental infrastructures and theoretical positions on environmentally and socially sustainable urban design in the Middle Eastern culture and climate, a framework and some initial tests for a parametric 3D urban model developed in CityEngine are presented. With the intended purpose of providing a tool capable of visualising modifiable urban design scenarios along with relevant associated data, the presented work focuses on the smallest scale of a model encompassing scales from the district level to the level of the urban block, with some relevant architectural features relating to social and environmental qualities.

With the continuous escalation of architectural design requirements, the continuous complexity of architectural models, and the integration of computer technology, virtual reality technology in architectural design has also emerged. The application of virtual reality technology in architectural design deepens the communication between professional architects and non-professionals, makes the architectural effect more intuitive, and effectively solves the communication barriers between architects and non-professionals. This article discusses the basic theory of virtual reality technology, and studies how to apply virtual reality technology in the landscape design of modern cities. On the premise of analyzing traditional landscape design methods, analyze the disadvantages of traditional landscape design methods; by studying the advantages of virtual reality technology, we choose to construct some scenes of urban architectural landscape design for virtual reality models. The article combines virtual reality technology with architectural design to effectively solve some of the shortcomings of traditional urban landscape design.

Inclusivity in urban design not only improves the quality of life of people with disabilities, but also benefits the general population, such as the elderly and families with young children, by creating safer and more comfortable spaces. Under this premise, the objective of the present study was to determine the relationship between inclusive architecture and urban design in the city of Juliaca, 2024; for this purpose, a basic, correlational, non-experimental, cross-sectional study was used. The sample consisted of 119 people, to whom an instrument was applied whose reliability established by Cronbach's Alpha was 0.761. The results were a coefficient Rho=0.700 and a p-value=0.001, this correlation suggests that as one aspect of inclusive architecture improves, there is a significant tendency for another aspect of urban design to improve as well, and vice versa. It is concluded that fostering greater awareness of the importance of inclusive architecture and urban design among planners, architects, and the community at large can lead to more significant and lasting change in how cities develop. The significant and strong correlation between these aspects reinforces the idea that a truly inclusive city requires a holistic approach that transcends traditional disciplines and embraces an integrated view of the built environment. This is essential not only to comply with legal regulations but to foster a more inclusive and equitable society.

We discuss the use of multiple design representations to enhance decision making at the early stages of design. Our interest is how the context in which design decisions are made can be extended by two interrelated approaches: (1) the incorporation of the temporal; (2) through the concurrent evaluation of qualitative representations and quantitative information. Outcomes from a practice survey and observations from design studios are used to inform the development of mixed reality (MixR) technology, to enable the applications to reflect architecture specific modes of design praxis. We propose two approaches - studio MixR and site MixR - reflecting the distinction between typical studio based design process and the requirements of a formal design review by the design team and stakeholders. Prototype applications have been implemented and a number of projects have been undertaken to illustrate some of the potential of mixed reality for architecture and urban design. These focus on the early stages of design, from the abstraction of parametric design to on site design reviews undertaken with augmented reality visualization.

Humans are a highly social species and like to live in company. David Frye puts it succinctly in the book Walls, that humankind shifted both physically and psychologically from being hunter-gatherers to a more sedate and well-behaved lifestyle once we started building walls around our collective living places. Placed on a scale somewhere between urban planning and architectural design, urban design has been described as the design of public spaces or the practice of creating a single composition of many buildings. Urban design examines the process, scale and product of our cities while also describing the different approaches: the political, social, physical, economic and environmental. Higher urban density is seen as a sustainable approach in smart growth theories by many researchers, because it leads to less land consumption as well as lower energy consumption. Cities are places of action and delight: of theatre and of congregation, of parliament and of mercantile trade.

Sunlight exposure is among the key factors in architectural and urban design. People spend more than half of the day in residential buildings, where sunlight exposure positively affects comfort, well-being, and some health problems. Insolation regulations and recommendations in many countries include criteria for minimum sunlight exposure of interior spaces to meet hygiene and technical standards and to enhance users’ comfort. This research shows a decrease in mandatory insolation criteria for residential spaces in Croatia since the end of the 20th century, which was the motivation for the assessment of European insolation standards. It provides a comparative review of current European recommendations and regulations and addresses the comprehensive issue of residential building insolation through the assessment of planning, urban and architectural design parameters. Research results show that regulatory traditions, climatic conditions, and planning cultures jointly shape national approaches to residential insolation. The research also shows that in the European countries analysed, insolation criteria are mostly mandatory at the national level. The insolation criteria assessed by this research range from urban standards, which refer to buildings, to apartment standards, which refer to rooms. The minimum window-to-floor ratio, with values ranging from 10 to 20%, and the minimum duration of sunlight exposure, with values from 1 to 4 h, were identified as dominant insolation criteria. Sunlight exposure criteria are necessary to protect residents’ hygiene rights, but should be adaptive to socio-economical, cultural and climatic contexts to support sustainable urban development.