Modern cities turn increasingly into functional areas seeking for a balance between agglomeration forces and urban quality of life. This paper will address the issue of sustainable urban development from a quality (performance) perspective. It aims to identify the critical access factors for the...

This paper addresses the validity of Newton’s universal gravitation law in the emerging digital world. It is argued that the Newtonian gravity principle may also have a validity in cyberspace, but that Tobler’s ‘First Law of Geography’ offers a more appropriate approach.

This paper presents a new methodology for evaluating ‘urban buzz’ districts as part of a general urban rehabilitation policy, in which forward-fitting plans are incorporated and play a key role. Such plans are part of smart city initiatives based on a blend of creativeness and intelligence....