With increasing urbanisation and climate change, citizens are more frequently exposed to
heat stress. In the current pragmatists' discourse, efforts to adapt cities to deteriorating …

Public participation and civic engagement in the urban planning process are societal trends
that stretch across countries, cultures, and classes. After decades of communist regimes in …

Criminal activities are often unevenly distributed over space. The literature shows that the
occurrence of crime is frequently concentrated in particular neighbourhoods and is related to …

Community mapping and emotional cartography have close links to participatory planning in
the urban environment. The case study presented in this paper describes the deployment of …

Most studies addressing heat in urban environments focus on thermal conditions and
neglect the mental component of thermal comfort. This study employs mental maps to …

Subjective and participatory mapping has become an important tool for urban planners and
city administrations. Perceptions of safety can affect the quality of life and property prices …

The fear of crime is an established research topic, not only in sociology, environmental
psychology and criminology, but also in GIScience. Using spatial analysis to analyse …

The paper argues that gamification, fuzzy control and the use of augmented reality can solve
many problems encountered by local and central authorities in managing the process of …

Background With the expansion and growth of research on neighbourhood characteristics,
there is an increased need for direct observational field audits. Herein, we introduce a novel …

Participatory mapping for landscape planning is gaining in popularity. With a participatory
geographic information system, the local spatial knowledge of the affected public can be …