Emerging topics on transforming urban places and spaces

The new conception of the city is currently under the reflection and experiment on regeneration debate and its physical, social and economic dimension. Thus, transformation and protection of urban environment through a good design has to be based on heritage value, diversity and sustainability issues. On the other hand, the ecological dimension of design has to be based on balance and availability of natural resources, new people’s needs and resilience in order to better manage sustainability. Urban change requires a new urban spatial planning and design especially in areas of great priority such as former industrial areas, waterfronts, brownfields, open public spaces in inner and outer areas with a lack of environmental and social and cultural conditions. In this sense, the different emerging topics have to be considered such as a new relationship between urban areas, services and urban resilience for communities and infrastructures in order to react and maintain their stability.