The classification of uses is one of the central issues of urban planning, since it is only by referring to groups of uses that we can achieve the simplification and, ultimately, the understanding of urban space. However, ...

The aim of the article is to review the official Greek target indicators, i.e. those standards that are included in the current planning legislation ( Official Government Gazette 285/D/5.3, 2004), and are used for the ...

It is clear that urban planning is not a theoretical science, but an applied field. However, this does not imply – or justify – the lack of an analytical field that would lay the scientific foundations of urban planning ...

This study presents the modeling of the system of educational facilities included in a large city or a municipality, to facilitate a decision regarding the optimum location of a new educational facility. As will be shown, ...

The article aims at exploring the literature on town centre delimitation methods over the last sixty years. Specifically, the first section explores the content of the term town centre, while the second one proposes an ...

It is generally recognised that indicator-based research forms a substantial part both of the everyday practice and of the current theoretical pursuits in an extensive set of different scientific fields that relate to the ...

The primary objective of this article is to review the evolution of urban land-use survey methodologies during the last century, with a special focus on the methodologies concerning field surveys that are conducted for ...

In the contemporary urban landscape, cities grapple with pressing environmental challenges, particularly in energy consumption and ecological impact. This research recognizes the imperative for a paradigm shift in the ...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the ways that the top-down and the bottom-up approaches to planning can be combined in the practice of planning standards. In the first part, the paper examines the utilization of ...

This paper exploresthe use of point pattern statistics in urban analysis. The study adopts a systems view of urban space and identifies three discernible tiers for the analysis of the latter. For each of these tiers, it ...

This article comments on the urban planning theory-practice gap, focusing on the relationship between the planning theory and the use of urban indicators. The reason for the selection of this case study is twofold. On the ...

Το άρθρο επιχειρεί να αξιολογήσει τους δείκτες προδιαγραφής που χρησιμοποιούνται για τον πολεοδομικό προγραμματισμό των δημόσιων χρήσεων και περιλαμβάνονται στο ΦΕΚ 285/Δ/3.3.2004. Συγκεκριμένα, το άρθρο εκκινεί με τη ...

Η Ιστορία του δικτύου των αστικών οικισμών της Ελλάδας, ίσως δεν διαθέτει μεγάλο βάθος χρόνου, όπως αυτό άλλων χωρών της Ευρώπης, διαθέτει όμως και μπορεί να επιδείξει στη σύντομη, σχετικά, ιστορική του εξέλιξη ιδιομορφίες, ...

Η εργασία αυτή μελετά το Ειδικό Πλαίσιο Χωροταξικού Σχεδιασμού και Αειφόρου Ανάπτυξης για τον Τουρισμό εμβαθύνοντας στην σκιαγράφηση του ρόλου που διαδραματίζουν οι παραδοσιακοί οικισμοί στον χωροταξικό σχεδιασμό. Μεθοδολογικά, ...