Abstract： Conceptual work within the manifold fields of Urban Studies is of utmost importance for educating the next generation of decisionmakers for future challenges and chances with regards to society and environment. The paper aims at providing some proven examples of creative ideas and activities to heighten the students’ awareness in secondary education about these topics and to instigate their curiosity towards the different aspects of urban design in general. The authors strive to enable their students not only to describe their environment (positive and negative aspects of urban development and future planning), but also to take part in changing it and thus securing their own rightful position in the political and creative process. Most work was done at different secondary schools all across Europe connected by the international European programmes of Comenius/Erasmus+, supported by the European Union.

Abstract： Flooding is one of the climate change natural disasters generated by human activities which constitute a threat to human life, property and the built environment. Although risks from such cannot be fully eliminated, however, adaptation to climate change can reduce the exposure and vulnerability to extreme climate and sustain the built environment. This work surveyed literature on climate change flooding and its effects on Nigerian built environment to find out that most developed nations with longer water bodies and greater exposure to flooding disaster have been able to curtail the negative effects of climate change induced flooding over the years than Nigeria were able to minimize the negative effects of climate change flooding on their built environment whereas, Nigeria with comparable minimum and manageable length of water bodies continuously have higher negative impacts from flooding. The application of adaptation theory will mitigate against the effect of climate change flooding and lead to the achievement of a sustainable built environment in Nigeria. The work eventually recommended concerted efforts of all stakeholders in the built environment to cooperate among themselves for the actualization of gains of adaptation approach to climate change flooding in Nigeria towards achieving sustainable built environment.

Abstract： University Technology Industrial Park as an independent economic entity, facing future unpredictable investment situation, its own spatial adaptability for different research enterprises on architectural space requirements is the key to sustainable development of the park. The planning and design of Southwest University of Science, considering the actual terrain of the base, adopting the modulus space, combining with the design modes of the network group and the courtyard group, the 8m×8m grid is superimposed in the base and the building module layout. In the planning structure, the design from the perspective of spatial flexibility, though the wrong and deformation techniques, and ultimately the formation of a unified style and rich form of architectural space. After the modularization of the building, the regular column network not only has a good economy, but also according to their own needs, flexible division of indoor space for settling scientific research units and enterprises. The spatial pattern created by the planning and design has good flexibility, successfully solved the problem of spatial flexibility, and solved the layout of the various functional zoning of the park. Additionally, adapting the layout of the different investment subjects lays the functional foundation for the smooth investment.

Abstract： This research builds on the conversation about the relationship between space and people, with the focus on the anthropology of space and the introduction of state of play (engagement) which in the framework of BRICS, as described in the case studies of Brazil and China. The modern colonial geographies’ viewpoint may urge us to rethink these notions with the emergence of alternative functions of some spaces, and the re-imagination of urban space by what it may be named global modernity. At the local, regional, national and global context, space is not an empty element, but is complicated mixture of social and public relations and meanings. The intend contrast between the Sao Paulo site - Parque Minhocão and Shanghai space - Redtown was to identify some key factors regarding why one space “works” for play and one does not. Redtown can be defined as the still birth of an incubator, and as such provides a means for investigating the reasons as to why it does not work as a planned arts hub, including the reasons it never worked as a site of play. The Parque Minhocão in contrast is an urban phenomenon that can be considered in the context of the urban space of São Paulo, and as a spontaneous emergence of urban construction with the planned interactions between residents in the surrounding areas, visitors and place.