The built environment witnessed rapid transformation after the industrial revolution. This transformation came along with some negativities, which gave rise to the concept of sustainability in urban form. In this regard, the current study aimed to assess and validate the reciprocal relationship between urban morphology and sustainable urban form. This study proposes a conceptual model which integrates and presents the holistic correlation between sustainable urban form and urban morphology, by using qualitative grounded theory as the research methodology. The model was developed by introducing analytical tools to evaluate sustainability, along with integrating typo-morphology and the concept of scale hierarchy. The findings of this study reveal that every single component of sustainable urban form interacts significantly with the typo-morphology approach. Consequently, the outcomes help urban planners to get more informed decisions about the geometric analysis of urban morphology from a sustainability point of view.

To enhance sustainability in urban design, it is essential to consider urban planning and morphology. This study explores the relationship between key morphological layers and the degree of sustainability in urban forms. Understanding how morphological characteristics influence sustainable urban form parameters provides valuable insights into urban areas’ sustainability potential. Based on this premise, a theoretical model is proposed to assess the potential of urban design for sustainability. The study examines urban forms across multiple scales, from material level to city-wide analysis, employing typo-morphological analysis inspired by Italian and British urban morphology schools. The model has been evaluated by academics from various universities who assessed the relationship between sustainable urban form parameters and morphological elements by weighting their relevance. Analytical tools were applied, including SPSS 29.0 and Excel-based mathematical methods. The results confirm a strong correlation between morphological elements and sustainable urban form characteristics, influenced by scale and classification. Additionally, the study identifies the most impactful parameters for enhancing sustainability in urban design. This research contributes to a comprehensive framework for sustainable urban morphology, offering practical insights for planners and designers in shaping more sustainable cities.

Nowadays, the quality of life in urban environments is a controversial issue discussed in different studies as a response to many recent problems faced by cities around the world. This issue has been the center of discussion in different studies given that, based on tangible and intangible characteristics of human life. It has become one of the main concerns of every society. Since people carry out different responsibilities in urban environments, an assessment of city life is of major importance. Given that urban planning significantly impacts human health and the level of satisfaction, the study is aimed to assess the quality of life in the urban environments based on subjective and objective indicators that can be applied to improve health communication and urban vitality. For the purposes of this study, urban life in the city of Famagusta, as the most important city of North Cyprus, was investigated according to the quality of life indicator.

Architects and designers should be familiar with the city developmental process to know about all the city aspects if they are hidden the whole time. This matter shows the importance of studying the urban sections to find out the city critical points. The method is the space syntax in one view which is the consideration of urban network analysis and it would be presented by graphs and maps by a computational description of the selected places. The main target of the space syntax establishment is to study the urban network issue by clarifying the most logical routes in the urban road network. This study has the aim to implement the space syntax as a method to determine urban network problems in order to achieve new suggestions to increase the urban network integration. In this regards, Famagusta city in Cyprus is chosen to study to present the new suggestion.

During the different period of architectural design, designers attempt to achieve a high level of life quality for all users. Architecture and urban planner want to provide a style of design which not only achieves different function for different users with respect to their ethnicity, ability, age, sex, capability, position, and lifestyle but also improve the friendly environment throughout responsive legislation based on long-term planning. Although the styles are considered some indicators, it is ignored the other important characteristics. Therefore, the existing styles never achieve the standard level of satisfaction of different people. The goal of the research is to introduce meta-postmodern style as supplement stylistic approach. The style tries to consider all important indicators that create strategic long-term planning for different generations. Various characteristics of a new style can be applied to improve the quality of human life and provide healthy, livable and sustainable planning for all users.

This paper presents the development and implementation of IoT HEAT, an intelligent, low-cost thermal monitoring system designed to enhance energy efficiency and support decarbonisation strategies in sustainable buildings. Recognizing the critical role of the built environment in global carbon reduction efforts, this study introduces a novel integration of the Temperature-Based Method (TBM) with real-time IoT-based sensing architecture to estimate the thermal transmittance (U-value) of building envelopes. Unlike conventional approaches that rely on expensive heat flux meters, this system leverages compact, affordable sensors to continuously monitor key temperature parameters interior air, surface, and exterior air across building façades with varying orientations. The originality of this work lies in its demonstration of how open-source, scalable technology can be used to perform reliable envelope diagnostics without the need for specialized equipment or complex setups. Academic contributions include validating TBM under real-world, dynamic conditions and providing a replicable framework for deploying intelligent building performance assessment systems. Results confirm the system’s potential to detect inefficiencies, inform retrofitting decisions, and significantly reduce operational energy losses. This study contributes to both academic discourse and practical applications by bridging the gap between simplified theoretical methods and cost-effective, real-time implementation for energy-efficient building design and renovation.