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The evaluation of various urban planning scenarios using metrics has enhanced consensus-building in participatory planning. Nevertheless, the integration of scenario planning pedagogy remains limited in Latin American nations. To bridge this disparity, scenario planning was integrated into a graduate planning studio in Bogotá over a two-year period. Our investigation focused on enhancements in students’ comprehension of uncertainty, urban metrics, and negotiation. Findings indicate that students successfully generated multiple scenarios rapidly. However, challenges emerged concerning the interpretation of communicative concepts in planning, data accessibility and constraints, as well as issues related to the user-friendliness and interoperability of available software tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the coevolution between the development of British constitutional rights and the status of social and minority groups in planning London since its first post-WWII comprehensive plan. The study employed a historical document analysis by scrutinizing major London urban plans, pertinent British legislation, and constitutional rights enactments to uncover the evolution of urban planning amid a changing rights-based constitutional landscape. The study concludes that the status of social and minority groups within London’s urban planning is not solely a product of planning approaches but is significantly shaped by the prevailing political and constitutional frameworks regarding minority rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the role of self-organization initiatives within conflicting urban planning processes. It draws on the debate developed around the use of the concepts of 'trading zone' and 'boundary object' in planning studies and focuses on a single case study: the regeneration of the Rossani barracks in Bari, Southern Italy. This long process is paradigmatic of current urban regeneration processes in relation to the plurality of actors involved and the projects developed. It allows for a general reflection on the implementation of solutions belonging to different strategic viewpoints, enabling impasses to be overcome even when actors remain in conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Top-down approaches often fail to involve, collaborate with, and consider social actors in the process of planning, design, and maintenance of public spaces (PDMPS). This research addresses how social participation is included in PDMPS in the Mexican case, by identifying the actors, the level of communication achieved, and their authority and power in the PDMPS process. The paper employs a case study approach, informed by semi-structured interviews. We use a democracy diagram to uncover the diversity of involved actors and how they are involved in the process. We show how government could provide support for social participation to implement participatory processes in PDMPS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article delves into participatory urban planning practices through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of polyphony. We explore how polyphonic planning, which requires multiple voices in a dialogue and representations revealing various perspectives, can be achieved in a hybrid participatory planning process. Our action research, conducted as part of an actual planning process, reveals that while hybrid participation can foster dialogue and increase polyphony, it requires participatory knowledge sharing, public assessment of planners' interpretations, and a clear definition of concepts. We also suggest improving the vertical dialogue between planning levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Application of the ecosystem services (ES) concept in urban planning has potential for improving environmental and human health outcomes in cities. We aimed to narrow an identified ES implementation gap by identifying the criteria for the practical fit of the ES concept in urban planning. We found that local relevance and adaptability within current planning approaches were core criteria for practical fit. If not met immediately, these criteria may be met over time through policy entrepreneurship. Further research in different locations and planning systems would increase understanding of the enabling factors for applying ES in urban planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For older adults and people with disabilities, it can be difficult to participate in recreation due to inaccessible nature. This can lead to exclusion when it comes to outdoor experiences and health. Nature-based solutions for quality of life are hence essential. Through semi-structured interviews with Swedish municipal and county representatives, and representatives of interest organizations for people with physical disabilities, we identify challenges in the planning and management of the recreational landscape in relation to accessibility and participation. We enlighten how accessibility and social inclusion can be enhanced through planning and management to promote health through equal access to nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing from a case study in Finland, the paper analyses the performative practice of urban development projects in order to win public support for the desired future. The role of famous architects as agents of urban change is pivotal. This raises the concern of how the performative trend in planning cuts down the public discussion of possible alternative futures. The analysis uses the concept techniques of futuring and follows the repetition of performative action. It is relevant to ask if the role of the public is to engage in the story presented instead of engaging in the planning process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the increasing number of female students enrolling and graduating from the Department of Urbanism at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, this study aims to mainstream gender into urban planning pedagogy. This is achieved by analyzing a case study comprising 47 survey responses and seven follow-up interviews. Among other factors, respondents' perspectives on gender are more influenced by their personal experiences rather than the objective knowledge acquired through the Department's curriculum. Recommendations for the department to mainstream gender into the pedagogy are (1) mainstreaming gender issues in urban planning curriculum, (2) promoting gender-balanced department climate, (3) innovating around teaching methods, and (4) increasing awareness about the profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports findings from a survey of public-sector urban planners in India. The survey attempts to gauge planners' opinions on the importance of planning values in everyday decisions and the degree to which these values are delivered in practice. In-depth interviews were used to validate the survey results and investigate themes further. The study presents a nuanced and contextualized analysis of the attitudes and mindsets of planners. It is expected that the study will initiate a discourse on planning values in India and encourage planners to confront the full implications of their decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite its importance, balancing has received limited attention in planning research. Emphasising the significance of balancing in achieving planning outcomes, we argue that this lack of research hinders the comprehensive analysis of balancing as the basis of planners' work. This practice review aims to demonstrate that balancing, especially the interplay between balancing and values, is a major element of planning processes from the conceptual perspective of practice theory. Further research on balancing may lead to an enhanced understanding for both scholars and practitioners of how values are invoked in planners' day-to-day work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Brazilian City Statute, from 2001, has institutionalized urban planning instruments at the federal level, comprising an amalgamation of design, law, planning, and economics. This regulation has established just principles, whose interpretation and application in spatial planning land use parameters are the municipalities' responsibility. The paper introduces interpretations of the Statute and practices in three Brazilian cities of different scales: a national economic capital, a state capital, and a regional metropolis. Considering that urban planning today is determined more by economic logic than by urban principles, we ask: what's urban planning in the Brazilian 21st Century? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The growth of employment opportunities for planners working in the private sector has resulted in a rapid change in the composition of the planning profession in the UK, with over 40% of Royal Town Planning Institute members now employed in private practice. Existing writing on private planning practice is somewhat circumspect, with the private sector being associated largely with a profit-driven approach. Drawing on interviews with private sector planners, this paper argues that this fails to reflect the lived reality of private sector planners, and in so doing sets out an alternative and more nuanced characterisation of private practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the impact of changes in planning practices in the UK, particularly with the introduction of "localism" in 2010. The focus on meeting housing targets has shifted the role of planners, making them more risk-averse and focused on numbers rather than creativity. This has led to a decline in trust and a perception that planning is solely about housing. Austerity measures have also affected planning departments, reducing resources and increasing expectations. To address these challenges, the article suggests the need for strong leadership, education, and a return to a vision-led system. [Extracted from the article]

Although material and energy flow analyses are increasingly recognised as tools for urban sustainability audits (e.g. benchmarking) and environmental policy guidance, few planning exercises go beyond research to design resource-efficient circular urban metabolisms. We proposed a strongly integrated inter-disciplinary and scalar approach for transferring evidence-based data at the smaller scale of design intervention within the framework of an urban planning and design studio on circularity. The results show the difficulty for students to handle complex data such as environmental statistics and sustainability indicators, as well as the limitation of their direct transferability in constructing territorial visions of transformation. The challenge remains connecting formal analysis with a qualitative and critical understanding of the plurality of stakeholders and conditions underpinning the recirculation of urban flows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To prepare for the impacts of climate change, many Asian cities aim to become climate resilient. This calls for innovative, integrative, inclusive, and transformative planning approaches. Although design is advocated as a means to develop such approaches, it remains unclear what a design-led planning approach actually entails. This paper explores the design-led planning approach of the 'Water as Leverage' (WaL) programme, and investigates how it unfolded in Semarang, Indonesia. We found that WaL was able to develop promising proposals by employing the potential of design. However, future design-led planning initiatives can benefit from more receptivity to local situations and initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The City Statute is a legal framework that provides Brazilian urban policy with another dynamic. It guides urban policies across the national territory, and hasgained international prominence at a moment when Latin American countries became policy exporters. This paper takes the City Statute to discuss multilevel urban policy mobilities between international and subnational levels, analyzing how its guidelines and contents spread across Brazilian and Latin American territories. The findings suggest that the City Statute has been simultaneously disseminated and questioned at different levels. It is a significant case study for understanding multilevel and South-South policy mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The project assessed different types of top-down influences from the EU to the country level; bottom-up influences from the country level to the EU; and horizontal influence between countries in relation to EU initiatives. Large-scale cross-national study involving detailed analysis of many countries begins with the I EU Compendium on Spatial Planning Systems and Policies i (CEC, [8]) undertaken for the then 15 EU member states and Norway (thus only concerned with western Europe). EU policy statements show much more variation, with higher influence being correlated with EU cohesion policy funding support. The findings on the significance of EU influence in different countries are uneven, they differ across sectoral policies as well as between countries because of a process of "filtering" in national systems. [Extracted from the article]

The circular economy (CE) has taken hold among urban development plans and programmes, yet research on the application of the concept in urban design and planning is still in its infancy. This paper provides a systematic review of the literature related to CE, urban planning, and design. It investigates how the literature is clustered by subject area as well as the epistemological positioning and methodological approach of different research clusters. Results suggest that objectivist and conceptual approaches are most widespread, although practical and constructivist approaches are emerging. Planners and designers are being called upon to lead more integrative research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Planning has a formal, legally defined component and an informal component developed in response to deficiencies in the planning system. Informal practices can contribute to the development of tools that would improve urban governance, especially in areas related to space. This article presents an overview of informal practices that have taken place in Polish cities and towns in recent years and offers an assessment of their impact on the quality of urban governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become an integral component of urban planning practice in the last 30 years. The applications, utility and fit of specific technologies within planning practice have been widely discussed, however the use of ICTs by planning practitioners beyond individual case studies is unknown. This paper explores the results of an online survey of Australian and UK planners and comparatively benchmarks the types and extent of use of ICTs in planning practice, and the factors inhibiting or enabling the use of different ICTs. The paper concludes with reflections on the relationship between ICTs and urban planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As we see in the papers in this collection, the same pattern continues into the twenty-first century, and in particular, the 2008 financial crash and its aftermath stimulated further planning reforms as part of neoliberal policy responses and "austerity urbanism" (Peck, [20]). As retrofitting becomes a way to battle climate breakdown, and reusing and recycling the existing building stock becomes the norm (European Commission, [6]), understanding the role of the historic built environment in regeneration policy and practice is key. Norway's case study demonstrates a policy outlook very much comparable to the other European case studies, seemingly following the "austerity urbanism" trend in urban policy, even though the 2008 financial crisis affected Norway much less directly. [Extracted from the article]

Social isolation and mental well-being have been public concerns for South Korea for more than a decade. This has led to the development of happiness legislation and promoting happiness as an explicit city policy. As a result, the Seoul Village Community Project was developed to foster citizen participation and community engagement to promote communal ways of living and reduce social isolation. This paper examines the contemporary driver of Seoul's endeavour to become a happy city and the success and failure in the city's policy actions. The paper also illustrates how citizen participation has resulted in Seoul's urban planning and revitalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A distinct collective place imaginary has developed in recent decades for the Lower Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle upon Tyne, or 'Ouseburn', formed by the experience of 'rediscovery' of this post-industrial area, as well as its longer industrial past. This has crystallized in the idea of 'Ouseburnness', a placeness that is used to actively frame the area's character and future. In this paper, we examine this story in the context of a relational understanding of place and the translation of place imaginary into place governance, and vice versa, in the process raising questions of wider relevance to heritage management and urban planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strategies to densify urban fabric for both environmental and market purposes, place built heritage under increasing pressure. Over the last decade, a shift can be noted in the discourse on built heritage in Norway, where the requirements for 'dynamic management' that recognises these pressures is emphasised. There is also an increasing awareness of the connection between cultural heritage and sense of place. This paper examines the row of wooden warehouses in the historic core of Trondheim, how cultural heritage values are interpreted by different actors. The paper concludes that despite unanimous agreement about the need to preserve the warehouses, reasoning and solutions vary depending on differences and positions in the cultural heritage discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

City leaders are advancing low-carbon transitions in urban areas that require robust operational frameworks and innovative processes. This paper presents a novel interdisciplinary framework to support urban decision-makers in the design and implementation of low-carbon strategies based on participatory approaches. Using inductive reasoning, the framework was defined according to three methodological steps: the preliminary analysis, the indicator selection, and the decision-making implementation. The work is part of the MOLOC Interreg Europe project and is applied to the revision of the Turin General Master Plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Swedish municipalities are obliged to formulate housing provision policies in housing programs, as part of municipal strategic planning. This article explores how municipalities interpret this responsibility. We analyze housing provision programs by drawing from prospective responsibility and policy analysis. Our analysis shows three different prospective responsibilities in the municipality's production of housing provision responsibility. The results show that municipalities take actions by different means, leading to ambiguities and inequalities in housing provision planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how policymakers interpret and deploy cultural economy approaches within municipal economic development strategies and cultural plans. Focusing on the 33 largest municipalities in Ontario, Canada, we conduct a keyword analysis of 63 municipal planning documents, supplemented with key informant interviews with economic development and cultural planning staff. Our analysis reveals that the use of cultural economy approaches in economic development and cultural plans varies depending upon city size, municipal governance structure and municipal organizational structure. However, despite the widespread use of cultural economy ideas in planning documents, we conclude that its uptake in municipal policymaking fails to reflect its professional and scholarly popularity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transportation and accessibility remain an important consideration in land use planning decision-making if modal shifts towards sustainable forms of transport are to be encouraged. Land value capture (LVC) mechanisms which gather developer contributions can provide new transport infrastructure which supports such a shift. Within England, this has traditionally been pursued through negotiated section 106 agreements, yet data suggest a significant decline in the value of these contributions for transport measures since 2010. This paper investigates the reduction to understand the reasons behind it and then considers the resulting implications for policy and LVC practices using a qualitative synthesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Municipal official plans are useful for mainstreaming transportation objectives into local development planning and decision-making processes. Using a plan quality evaluation, this article assesses whether and how well transportation planning is integrated in municipal official plans of the 30 most populous municipalities in Canada. The results suggest this integration is weak, with a notable absence of rigorous data to inform transportation content in official plans, and poor monitoring and evaluation of transportation goals and policies. Furthermore, few plans provided details about how transportation-related policies would be implemented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the crucial role of blogs in reporting topical materials yet to be adequately discussed in scholarly journals. A scoping study examined 31 samples from 4 types of blogging sources cited in 10 publications published in 7 journals in 2020. We identified four categories of blogs that include 39 community organisations, academics, practitioners, and community members who are readers of these blogs. We discuss the areas in which these blogs have affected public discourse over COVID-19. We also show that the blogs are based on novel concepts that have not yet been subject to the peer review process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Planning systems rely on an element of certainty and can sometimes be ill-equipped to creatively adapt to increasingly complex system trajectories. We analyse how designers and planners deal creatively with a statutory planning system that is increasingly being challenged by the progressive complexity of the broader social-ecological system in which it operates. Taking Sydney, Australia, as a case study and drawing from six interviews with senior planners and designers, we explore planning barriers and the strategies used to address these barriers. While many of the strategies are useful and appropriate, what seemed more significant were some of the creative methods employed to repurpose strategies in relatively modest but more adaptive ways. We propose to refer to this as 'hacking' and discuss how planners and designers might successfully hack the planning system within its current (legal) boundaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Italy, urban and regional planning education is a comparative newcomer to higher education, just as planners are among built environment professionals. Through an original collection of data, this paper investigates the outcomes of 20 years of planning education and practice, paying attention to the (mis)matches between the two and to the emerging internationalization of both. How many planning graduates are there? How are they trained? What do they do? What is their professional status? Findings confirm a situation of lights and shadows, the development of a distinctive professional identity remaining imperative to ensure future relevancy for the Italian planner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

'Mediators' are becoming recognized as necessary actors in managing complex socio-political dynamics in the 'temporary use' of vacant spaces. However, 'mediation' remains understudied and undertheorized in temporary use scholarship. To better articulate mediator roles in temporary use, I review literature on related 'intermediary' roles in 'urban transitions' literature vis-à-vis temporary use practice. Thereby, I propose a typology of roles in (inter)mediation and elucidate selected roles in practice. By articulating how mediators align interests, build networks and negotiate the conditions in planning and development, this article draws attention to changing professional roles in planning and sets a basis for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In planning literature little attention has been paid to the relationships between news articles and readers' comments. Based on a newspaper article that announced a planning system reform agenda in Sydney, Australia, this paper is curious about comments made by self-selecting commenters. To this end, the paper uses critical discourse analysis to examine the actors, actions and the framing in a newspaper article, as well as the extent the readers' comments engage with the news article and other commenters. The paper shows that the readers employed a diverse range of discursive strategies to make sense of the news article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In response to this legislative development, a new institutional, administrative, and policy marine/maritime spatial planning (MSP) community has emerged in the EU member states, with an increasingly global reach (Trouillet, [20]). Member states of the European Union (EU) were due to establish their maritime spatial plans, following the EU's 2014 Directive for Maritime Spatial Planning (Directive [4]/89/EU, 2014) by end of March 2021. MSP may, however, also perform a strategic visioning role, establishing a coherent policy framework for future decision-making, based on a future-oriented policy vision. The submission of maritime plans by member states to the EU offers a unique point in time to reflect on - and critically evaluate - MSP practices and their relation to terrestrial and coastal planning practices. [Extracted from the article]

Smart growth promotes urban sustainability by encouraging increased densities, mixed use, walkable design, and access to diverse transportation and housing options. This study applies literature-derived indicators to examine urban change in the city of Prince George; British Columbia's northern capital. Findings illustrate that key growth nodes have largely performed (e.g., densified) at or below the level of their surrounding neighbourhood over time despite a robust set of policy tools associated with smart growth. This research is one of few to examine smart growth in a northern urban context, and situates the concept within the slow growth/no growth realities of many rural and remote regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work seeks to contribute critical analysis surrounding the educational practices for spatial justice that the movements themselves have proposed. Focusing on the qualitative research approach surrounding the Movimiento de Pobladores en Lucha (MPL) case study from Santiago, Chile, ‘popular self-managed education’ fostered by the MPL represents a complex articulation of educational processes – formal, non-formal, and informal – which promote a radical form of participation, or ‘involvement’. This case allows for the questioning of certain participatory approaches promoted by the planification and education of spatial justice, as a methodology for working with communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The form of human settlements impacts on planetary health, population health and health equity. Yet goals for urban and territorial planning are only tangentially linked to public health outcomes. The WHO and UN-Habitat support actions to bring health to the fore in planning and design of human settlements, recently publishing 'Integrating Health in Urban and Territorial Planning: a sourcebook' focusing on 'why' action is needed, 'how' to initiate it; and curating several existing resources on 'what' to do. Recommendations for research, policy and practice include calls for rapid development of closer relationships between public health and spatial planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(2020) Coronavirus (COVID-19): Latest data and analysis on coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK and its effect on the economy and society. At the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic escalated. It is impossible to foresee all details, but most likely the next thing to come will not be a pandemic, yet have disruptive qualities similar to those of the COVID-19 pandemic. [Extracted from the article]

Urban experimentation and testbed planning have emerged as a response for developing solutions to contemporary urban challenges and constitute designated spaces of risk-taking. They represent strategic attempts at reimagining, influencing and even altering urban futures through the specific focus of being open to surprises and the unexpected. The aim of this article is to conceptualize risk in testbed planning and analyze risk and urban planning approaches to risk-taking. By using mobility experiments in five Nordic municipalities, it is shown that three approaches to risk prevail with regard to different loci of risk in testbed planning. These three approaches are minimizing and shifting responsibilities for individual risk, minimizing and shifting organizational risks and refusing political risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By the end of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had exceeded 83 million cases worldwide. Given the shared origins of planning and public health, new living and social conditions have prompted an interest in how urban planning could respond to the pandemic's associated implications. In 2020, a national online survey Plan My Australia was conducted among planning experts (n = 161), in part, to identify new challenges facing urban planning and design due to the pandemic. The findings reported here revealed that many experts identified better planning for future pandemics in Australia could require some reconsideration of city size, urban density, self-sufficiency, public transport use, open space provision and housing design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a comparative study of conservation planning practice between Chester, England and Qingyan, China. It examines conservation policies and plans in the two cities, and aims to contribute to current international debates surrounding heritage management. Three key dimensions of conservation planning are identified and applied to the cases: the planning tools delivering conservation; the recognition of heritage; and conservation objectives and principles pursued. The analysis reveals that enduring socio-cultural and institutional specificities contribute to moulding approaches to conservation planning. Understanding such contextual specificities and distinctiveness is essential for international exchanges of experience around conservation planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comprehensive spatial plans require a wide range of high quality spatial data, but planning requirements are not always considered in the increasing number of spatial data initiatives. This paper presents a framework for systematically analysing the availability and quality of spatial datasets in urban planning, and applies this to the example of the metropolitan strategy for Greater Adelaide, South Australia. The findings reveal significant gaps in important spatial data that are publicly available. This is especially concerning given the need to better understand integrated and multi-scalar planning policies such as for mixed use developments and polycentric urban structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is another dialogue on planning. Its novelty lies in its potency in discovering new cutting edges in planning theory and education by examining the roots of planning in real world practices. This invokes the meaning and necessity of a definition. It recalls that surveyors were bona fide town planners in all former British colonies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between the urban and the rural is complex and it is increasingly difficult to make a distinction between them. In Turkey a new metropolitan law has reformed administration to classify formerly rural areas in 30 metropolitan municipalities as 'urban', effectively eliminating the rural-urban distinction. An evidenced based analysis and classification of urban and rural is needed to support relevant policies and planning.This review proposes an approach which results in three categories of area: predominantly rural region (PRR), intermediate rural region (IRR) and predominantly urban region (PUR) which would provide a more effective basis for policy and planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban development planning and world cultural heritage represent two discourses that are relevant to the transformation of disused industrial heritage sites. The former Zollverein coal-mining complex (Germany) is a case study in this regard. The synchronous discourse approach enables analysis of conflicts and the potential of consensus within discourse constellations. Transdisciplinary cooperation aims to identify good practice in heritage management and can enable research knowledge to be transferred into practice. Eight criteria are presented for good practice in industrial heritage conservation and urban development, each including several indicators for analysis and monitoring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Increased heat stress and sea-level rise, associated with climate change could threaten the viability of some cities by the latter part of this century. This paper reviews urban development patterns in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, and concludes these cities are highly vulnerable to elevated wet-bulb temperatures and sea level rise. This is predominantly due to the focus of development along the Gulf coastline, where these issues are concentrated. In response, this paper ventures regional planning responses to adapt to these threats through decentralising populations to inland areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Greater Kuala Lumpur is striving to pursue efficiency and liveability by maximising urban productivity while simultaneously continuing its intensive urbanisation. Thus, the expansion and enhancement of its public transport provide opportunities for transit-oriented developments (TODs) near designated stations. The public's understanding and expectation of this model of urban planning are examined and factor analysis is used to reveal the underlying TOD factors, which relate to a conducive and seamless pedestrian environment, affordability, quality of the public transport system, pedestrian amenities and a compact and mixed-development concept. This paper identifies how development projects can become transit-oriented to enhance sustainable mobility behaviours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]