Universities have the extraordinary ability to generate awareness regarding all aspects of sustainability in communities. To be successful, they must first adopt and model sustainable concepts within their own campuses. Transportation is one of the most affective sectors on the level of sustainability on university campuses. In recent decades, numerous universities around the world have begun encouraging usage of active modes of transportation through various strategies. This research has a multi-faceted approach to researching proven strategies, sampling local conditions, and making context-driven recommendations. The literature review outlines the most effective strategies related to Transportation Demand Management (TDM) for promoting usage of active modes of transportation inside university campuses. After that, the condition of existing facilities and strategies as well as commuters’ propensities related to active modes of transportation in the Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) campus are evaluated using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The results include a set of recommendations and a framework for administrating, implementing, and enhancing a sustainable transportation system thereby increasing the commuter’s use of sustainable active modes of transportation to, from, and within the university campus.

It is a shared global experience that a house which is already expensive will become even more costly. This experience is partly because housing supply has always failed to satisfy demand. In many developing countries, the issues of affordable housing supply center on shortage and poor distribution. Recent studies on this subject reveal that distribution-related problems can be addressed through choice reconciliations. Therefore, understanding how housing affordability problems affect housing choice enables a broader interpretation of the issue. Thus, critical in housing policy making and implementation, as well as towards sustainable development/delivery of affordable housing programs. In Nigeria, housing choice has never been investigated, neither has it been studied within the framework of sustainability. It is not a common strategy to incorporate sustainability into the concept of affordable housing choice. However, integrating sustainability into the concept of affordable housing choice allows for the introduction of wide-ranging and broader criteria such as environmental and social factors, which are routinely neglected in housing choice literature. Therefore, this study aims at filling this literature gap by identifying the determinants of sustainable affordable housing choice (SAHC) in the study area. The purpose is to establish the severity of the identified factors based on respondents’ perception and discuss the agreement levels amongst the three respondent groups. Regarding this, a comprehensive list of 43 different factors contributing to SAHC were determined through a systematic literature review. Based on which a survey of 83 affordable housing applicants, 102 and 69 residents of affordable housing estate and shantytown respectively, was performed. Through statistical analysis, results reveal that the factors affecting SAHC cuts across economic, social and environmental dimensions. Also, there is an agreement (correlation) by each group and the overall ranking of all participants. The tests confidence level for all inferential statistics was 95%, which implies 0.05 level of significance. These figures indicate that the data were obtained from the same population and points to the relatedness of factors identified. Using principal component analysis (PCA), the 43 different factors were narrowed down to seven. The study findings show that “Housing price in relation to income” and “rental price in relation to income” are the most severe factors with relatively high overall scoring, which is consistent with similar studies in this domain. However, it was uncovered that respondents placed high priorities on other non-economic factors like security (safety), housing location and building type. The study presents an interesting topic, usually unexplored in the field of decisions and public policy. It argues that at present, the housing affordability concerns and affordable housing choice determinants in the study area cannot be restrictedly defined in economic terms. Our findings build on previous studies and reiterate the need to consider a broader view towards affordable housing problem. It offers salient information to stakeholders and real estate companies, which could aid sustainable development/delivery of housing projects that are affordable.

For thousands of years, cities have evolved with changing needs. Cities are like living organisms, which are exposed to transformations as a result of changing needs and requirements. City centres are one of the attractive, essential, and vital parts of the city that are also affected by these changes. Specifically, historic city centres, which refer to the origins of the city, will be discussed within this context. Urban design aims to shape our cities with better quality and provide better places for everyday life. In addition, urban regeneration can be utilized as generic public policy for solving problems and providing physical improvements for these cities. Although the problems that emerge in each city are similar, sometimes they change circumstantially. As a result, the planning, implementation, and management of urban regeneration projects as well as their sustainability can produce serious complications. This article focuses on the process of urban regeneration, historic city centres, and the Mediterranean region and aims to develop an applicable regeneration framework for historic city centres limited to the Mediterranean region. First, the main problems of these cities are described. Next, characteristics of historic city centres and associated problems of the Mediterranean region are explained. Subsequently, the concept of urban regeneration is clarified, and the processes involved are discussed. Finally, an applicable urban regeneration framework for historic Mediterranean city centres, developed by the authors, is explained with the goal to reduce social segregation while incorporating the contributions of views from both local inhabitants and stakeholders in the process. The methodology of the overall research presented in this article is mainly based on a critical review of primary and secondary documents from the literature through a comparative and exploratory approach.

Kültürel miras ve sürdürülebilir kalkınma arasındaki ilişki, uzun yıllardır birçok ilgili paydaşın gündeminde yer almaktadır. Kültürel miras, Birleşmiş Milletler (BM) tarafından benimsenen Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Amaçları (SKA) kapsamında vurgulanarak Eylül 2015'te sürdürülebilir kalkınma gündemine dahil edilmiştir. Bu ilişkiye inananarak, bu makale kültürel miras koruma ve yönetimi (KMK&Y) yoluyla SKA'ları gerçekleştirmek maksadıyla çeşitli disiplinlerin kapasitelerine ve sınırlamalarına odaklanmaktadır. Bu makale, BM Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Amaçlarını gerçekleştirebilmek maksadıyla kültürel mirasın korunması ve yönetimi için yenilikçi ve dönüştürücü stratejilere ve politikalara ihtiyacımız olduğunu savunmaktadır. Başta mimarlık, kentsel tasarım, kentsel ve bölgesel planlama - ortak disiplinler olmak üzere çeşitli disiplinlerle birlikte ekonomi, coğrafya, demografi ve kent sosyolojisi arasında güçlü bir işbirliği gerekmektedir. Bu makalede sunulan araştırma, sürdürülebilir kalkınma amaçları ile kültürel miras ve kültürel mirasın korunması ve yönetimi ile ilgili kapsamlı bir literatür taramasına dayanmaktadır; ardından sürdürülebilir kalkınma amaçlarını gerçekleştirmeye yönelik kültürel miras koruma ve yönetimi için disiplinler arası bir yaklaşım ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda araştırma, SKA’ları ile KMK&Y arasındaki bire bir ilişkiyi tespit etmekte ve her bir ortak disiplininin KMK&Y ve sürdürülebilir kalkınma üzerindeki rolünü eleştirel analiz yoluyla vurgulamaktadır.