Category: Articles
Mapping the City Via Moving Images: A Brief Review and Discussions about the ‘Documentary’ Approach
Mapping is a powerful and productive instrument for construing and comprehending the world. Conventional approaches to mapping project data from a top-down view to unfold the city’s structure or spatial […]
The Issue of Multilevel Pedestrian Urbanism
Public space is entangled with the contemporary spatial, social, cultural, political, and economic challenges cities are facing. It is one of the critical concepts to tackle to ensure sustainable, just, […]
The Problem of “Spontaneity” in Qilou Verandah Space
Qilou (also known as the “shophouse”) is one of the unique vernacular architectural types in Southeast Asia and East Asia areas, such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and China. In Qilou, […]
Exploring for a New Method for Mapping: Street Edges as In-Between Space
According to pedestrians‘ perspective, the street edge is the portion of the street interface that determines the attractiveness of the city at the eye level. Gehl defines the city’s edge […]
Investigating Place in the Age of Mobility: A Short Introduction
A few decades already passed since the recognition of the effects of globalization on the identity of territories. On the one hand, economics and politics rearrange cities and regions into […]