Unsanctioned, unscripted, and seemingly “undesirable” activities have long appropriated
urban spaces in routine and sometimes unexpected ways, bringing new meanings and …

Over the past few decades, the adaptive reuse of buildings—transforming them to meet new
functional and aesthetic needs and requirements—has become a highly specialized domain …

Small projects have recently attracted attention as a starting point for urban regeneration.
However, by promoting elastic urban regeneration characteristics, their temporality and …

Urban strategies and the way cities are planned have changed throughout history, adapting
to the needs of the inhabitants, infrastructure requirements, and advances in technology …

In this paper, we highlight some of the challenges associated with strategic spatial planning,
including long-time frames, limited control, translation and implementation gaps. We then …

Traditional urban planning projects require considerable time, political buy-in, and capital.
Conversely, small-scale urban interventions can be executed quickly and inexpensively …

For eighty years, UK government policy related to urban sprawl, town centres and high
streets in England and Wales has been dominated by planning/land-use control. In the post …

Abstract The Canterbury Earthquake Sequence of 2010–2012 was devastating for
Christchurch, New Zealand, a city built on a floodplain. The sequence resulted in …

Since the 1970s, temporary uses of vacant spaces have become a preferred urban
development strategy to revitalise centrally-located neighbourhoods. In the housing sector …

Over the last decades, interim reuse has emerged as a possible solution for vacant land and
abandoned spaces in cities. It is presented as an alternative to conventional regeneration …