Urban mapping of Cadiz during the War of Spanish Succession: a paradigm of the cartography enterprise undertaken by the Military Engineer Corps by Joaquín Aguilar-Camacho, Gabriel Granado-Castro, José Antonio Barrera-Vera

“…</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">In this paper the most characteristic urban plans of Cadiz during the first quarter of the seventeenth century will be analysed from a cartometric point of view. …”
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Diversity and Abundance of Breeding Birds, Habitat, and Nesting Substrate Selection in Urban Areas: A Relevant Case from the Southern Slope of the Mediterranean by Ikram Douini, Wafae Squalli, Ismail Mansouri, Mohamed Mounir, El-Mostafa Benka, Mohamed Dakki, Soumaya Hammada

“…Our data revealed the diversity, habitat use, and nesting substrates of urban breeding bird communities in Morocco and the Southern slope of the Western Palearctic. Future urban plans must integrate measures to provide suitable breeding resources such as cavities of old walls and a high diversity of urban green spaces for birds to enhance their breeding performances, thus promoting the well-being of the population via increasing biodiversity.…”
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THE LEGAL NATURE OF THE BUILDING LAND AND FOREIGEN INVESTMENTS by Ilija Babić

“…The Land, which is by the General Act of a manucipiality, in harmony with The Law of Planning and Building and urban plan, fixed as a public land, can not be trausfered of the government property. …”
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Specifics of planigraphy and improvement of a Siberian town in XVI–XVIII centuries by Tataurov S.F., Tikhonov S.S.

“…The study made it possible to reconstruct the history of the territorial development of the town from its foundation until the adoption of an unified urban plan in 1775. The survey allowed to identify the principles of foundation and development of a Siberian Russian city at the end of XVII–XVIII centuries. …”
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Community environmental satisfaction: its forms and impact on migrants’ happiness in urban China by Sainan Lin, Yinxuan Huang

“…Improving migrants’ well-being is emerging as a key to the state policy emphasized in China’s New-type Urbanization Plan. Previous studies on subjective well-being (SWB) have primarily focused on the impacts of objective measures of community environment and consider migrants as a homogeneous group. …”
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Mitigating Heat Islands Effect in Mega Cities through Districts' Prioritisation for Urban Green Coverage Applications: Cairo – Egypt as a Case Study by Aboulnaga Mohsen, Mostafa Mona

“…The study adopts the Australian model developed by Norton et al. [Landsc. Urban Plan. 134, 127 (2015)], which includes the intersection of three factors (heat exposure, vulnerability, and behavioural exposure) to identify a high priority area. …”
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The Hospital System and the Urban Resilience by Francesca Pirlone

“…These could be an integral part of the town civil protection plans (not only dedicated to the emergency but also to forecast), in turn attached to urban plans in order to become operational tools of strategies and policies needed to increase urban resilience.…”
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Towards interactive sustainable neighborhood design : combining a tangible user interface with real time building simulations by Rose, Cody M. (Cody McCullough)

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Down with the walls! The politics of place in Spanish and German urban extension planning, 1848-1914 by Ross, A

“…That is, we have produced investigations into the practical considerations of drafting urban plans, designing new apartment blocks, and building municipal facilities. …”

Spatial modeling of geogenic indoor radon distribution in Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea using enhanced machine learning algorithms by Fatemeh Rezaie, Mahdi Panahi, Sayed M. Bateni, Seonhong Kim, Jongchun Lee, Jungsub Lee, Juhee Yoo, Hyesu Kim, Sung Won Kim, Saro Lee

“…The generated map assists local authorities to develop urban plans more wisely towards region with less radon concentrations.…”
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¿Metrópolis dispersas? by Annalisa Giampino

“…Is it to consider as a new periphery, or, merely, as a sort of urbanization plan resulting from a limited urbanistic praxis turned to be a pure, building license regularization? …”
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Analyzing the Status of Forming the Innovative City in Mashhad City With an Emphasis on Vision of 2025 by Dr. ata ghafari gilandeh, Dr. omid ali kharazmi, Dr.mohammad hasan yazdani, Dr.somayeh Roshanroodi

“…The general situation of innovation has been undesirable presently and the urban managers don’t so many tendencies to innovation in urban plans and projects. Even if the innovation in projects is considered in the first stages of research, faces with many problems in the implementation and practical stage and innovation is forgotten in them. …”
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The Municipality of County of Pirot: A contribution to the history and visual culture of the half of the 19th century by Zebić-Bjelica Tijana P., Popović Miroslav M.

“…In the same direction, we notice the process of modernization and transformation of Pirot into a modern, European city, and the abandonment of Ottoman heritage and the principles of organization of cities of the Ottoman period. New urban plans were being created and public buildings of national importance were being built, all within the development of the new national identity and the needs of Serbian society and the state. …”
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Agroecología y alianzas urbano-rurales frente a la desposesión [I/II]. I. Retos, ausencias y excesos de la planificación espacial = Agroecology and urban-rural alliances against d... by Marian Simón Rojo (editora), Inés Morales Bernardos (editora), Jon Sanz Landaluze (editor)

“…From another perspective and looking at food struggles in urban peripheries in Lisbon (Portugal) Inés Morales reflects on the contradictions of urbanization plans and the strategies of food movements and the contribution of both to the current processes of 'planned dispossession' and gentrification. …”
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Condiciones de la edificación de vivienda aislada en Suelo No Urbanizable = Conditions of building detached houses in rural land by Eduardo de Santiago González, Isabel González García

“…Abstract: This research, partial development of a more wide reflection on the problematics of urbanism in rural areas, focuses on the construction of detached housing in land classified as non-suitable for urban development (SNU), in municipalities that lack urban plans capable of addressing this problem. For this reason, the have been selected the 5 Autonomous Communities (Aragón, Castilla La Mancha, Castilla León, Extremadura and La Rioja), where this issue is more relevant, in which it is reviewed all state, regional and provincial (NSP) regulations in force. …”
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Assessing the Accuracy of ALOS/PALSAR-2 and Sentinel-1 Radar Images in Estimating the Land Subsidence of Coastal Areas: A Case Study in Alexandria City, Egypt by Noura Darwish, Mona Kaiser, Magaly Koch, Ahmed Gaber

“…For future developmental urban plans in Alexandria City, it is recommended to expand towards the western desert fringes instead of the south where the present-day ground lies on top of the former wetland areas.…”
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Enabling and inhibiting urban development : a case study of Lahore Improvement Trust as a late colonial institution by Malik, Hala Bashir

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Destiny of Marginalization. The Role of Urban Policies in the Abandonment of the Historical Centre of Leonforte by Maria Rosaria Vitale, Antonella Versaci

“…The town of Leonforte was founded in the XVII century, when the Branciforti family obtained a licentia pupulandi for Tavi’s feudal territory. An ambitious urban plan based on a regular layout was developed along the tableland surrounding the north-western side of the Mount Cernigliere. …”
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Novel Sources of Biodiversity and Biomolecules from Bacteria Isolated from a High Middle Ages Soil Sample in Palermo (Sicily, Italy) by Alberto Vassallo, Alessandra Modi, Andrea Quagliariello, Giovanni Bacci, Teresa Faddetta, Michele Gallo, Aldesia Provenzano, Andrea La Barbera, Giovanna Lombardo, Valentina Maggini, Fabio Firenzuoli, Marco Zaccaroni, Giuseppe Gallo, David Caramelli, Carla Aleo Nero, Franco Baldi, Renato Fani, Antonio Palumbo Piccionello, Sandra Pucciarelli, Anna Maria Puglia, Luca Sineo

“…ABSTRACT The urban plan of Palermo (Sicily, Italy) has evolved throughout Punic, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, and Norman ages until it stabilized within the borders that correspond to the current historic center. …”
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Reims/Durocortorum, ville gauloise ? Hypothèses pour une nouvelle problématique des origines de l’agglomération by Robert Neiss

“…It also has the effect of reconsidering the impact of the Augustan period developments on the general configuration of the urban plan. Indeed, it would appear that the Gallo-Roman city, like a majority of its important overland routes, was quite faithfully superimposed atop an organization that had already been shaped for centuries within this central and atypical site of the Remi territory. …”
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