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Adaptive Reuse of Abandoned School Buildings
School closures not only affect students and teachers; these spaces serve as anchor institutions providing social infrastructure for the sustained health of communities. While closed schools remove a critical community asset, these vacant buildings provide adaptive reuse opportunities for alternative social infrastructure and community resources.
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  • 25 Dec 2023
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Pay for Renewable Energy Alternatives Willingness in Thailand
There is a diversity of socio-economic status among residents in Bangkok in the use of electricity for their living and small businesses with different tariffs. Households in Bangkok have a positive attitude toward and are willing to pay for renewable energy (RE), including solar cells, wind, and hydropower, except for biomass, as they are not sure of its level of eco-friendliness. They all have a unique opinion that providing a good quality of power is under the responsibility of the Government, as it is for the welfare and the right to have a quality power service, so they do not need to pay more for a better one. 
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  • 22 Dec 2023
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Sustainable Development Suitability in Linear Cultural Heritage
Heritage area development assessments can increase public and government knowledge of the state of heritage areas and aid decision makers in formulating sensible policies or plans to protect and develop heritage areas. The valley is the spatial model of mountain economic development proposed on the basis of a basin combined with the ecological protection, rural development, and cultural inheritance present in mountainous areas.
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  • 11 Dec 2023
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Sustainable Smart City
Cities, as dynamic living centers and hubs of production and consumption, play an essential role in the global economy, are major contributors to the world’s GDP, and serve as arenas for political and social changes. Effectively managed cities can benefit residents by generating economies of scale through shared amenities, fostering health and well-being. Cities not only leverage industries’ creativity and help firms to innovate, but also serve as cultural incubators that determine livability and attract, retain, and nurture the segment of the creative labor force needed to succeed in the new economy. Sustainable Smart Cities have a significant potential to ensure equal access to public services, achieve sustainability and governance transparency, improve livability, and anticipate and mitigate increasingly changing threats. 
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  • 14 Nov 2023
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Applications of Delphi Method in Policy and Planning
In participatory planning, fostering authentic dialogue among diverse stakeholders is paramount. Such dialogue not only facilitates information exchange but also promotes mutual understanding and trust, leading to consensus. Initially developed in the 1950s, the Delphi technique was designed to facilitate agreement among experts regarding future forecasts. Known as ‘classical Delphi’, this original form aims to organize group interactions in a way that minimizes the drawbacks commonly associated with face-to-face discussions, such as biases related to authority, hasty conclusions, and inflexibility in initial viewpoints.
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  • 03 Nov 2023
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Transit Stations and Local Living Patterns
Urban planning and transportation policies are vital to creating sustainable and liveable cities. Transit-orientated development (TOD) has emerged as a prominent approach that emphasises the establishment of neighbourhoods with convenient access to public transportation, thereby promoting car-free lifestyles.
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  • 24 Oct 2023
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Association between Community Garden and Health
The term “community garden” generally refers to land where local community members manage and cultivate plants or flowers. A similar, but different, spatial form is the allotment, which refers to spaces within a large garden that individuals or families formally lease from organizations, such as companies and associations, for cultivation purposes. Community gardens emphasize their public nature, communal management, and sharing-oriented approaches. Community gardens exhibit a wide range of forms, reflecting the contextual characteristics of their locations. Urban community gardens often exist as alternative public spaces within cities, providing environmental, social, economic, and health benefits.
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  • 11 Sep 2023
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Natural Disasters Impact on Cultural Mayan Heritage Spaces
In the town of Sacapulas located in the mountainous country of Guatemala, there is a constant risk of natural disasters. Floods and landslides occur frequently, resulting in the loss of human lives and cultural aspects. Specifically, in the region, the creation of black salt is the most affected.
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  • 06 Sep 2023
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High-Quality Tourism Destinations Based on Spatiotemporal Big Data
A tourism destination is a region where tourist activities take place; this can be either a special tourist site or any area in a city where tourist activities occur. It is one of the most important parts of the entire tourism process. Creating high-quality tourism destinations can provide tourists with high-quality experiences and improve the overall living environments in an area, thereby pleasing locals and attracting visitors from far and wide.
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  • 03 Aug 2023
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Territorial Brand in Regional Development: Interdisciplinary Discussions
Almost half of the world’s countries, including cities, have strategically adopted the territorial brand. This essay proposes an interdisciplinary reflection on the relationship between territorial brands and territorial and regional development theories. It discusses how the brand relates to the territory, making it a social actor mediated by a distinctive signal, the territorial brand. The intersection between the concepts of territory and brand reveals the legitimation strategies of social actors in producing a collective space delimited by power relations. Beyond the economic and tourist spheres, this context brings new debates to politics, theory, and social sciences in interdisciplinary regional development.
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  • 19 Jul 2023
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