Mirko Guaralda
Biographic Data
| ID | 6279243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mirko Guaralda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mirko |
| FAMILY NAME | Guaralda |
| SIGNATURE | GUARALDA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5370-5766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Using Photovoice as a Method: Uncover the Experiences of Women in Public Space
Photovoice can be a powerful methodology that employs photography to engage women’s voices and record aspects of women’s daily lives from their perspectives. Overlooking women’s needs in public space planning can result in safety concerns, limited accessibility, economic disparities, exclusionary practices, and social isolation, collectively reflecting the inequity that can occur in urban planning. Women must be engaged in the planning and design…
Mapping thematic evolution in urban design for older people: A hybrid scientometric review
Urban design for circularity: Spatial strategies and morphologies of mid-rise typologies for resilient cities
Urban design plays a key role in translating circular principles into spatial form. This paper explores how circularity is articulated in the design and morphology of mid-rise multi-residential typologies, offering a scalable alternative for resilient and inclusive urban development. Grounded in a Circular Urban Design framework, the study combines a review of 164 projects with typo-morphological analysis of seven built cases. It identifies recur…
Navigating urban climate design implementation challenges: Insights from Brisbane’s built environment experts
Urban densification, intended to enhance efficiency, often exacerbates urban climate issues like diminished thermal and wind comfort. Despite substantial evidence on the climatic impacts of urbanization, integrating this knowledge into development practices remains difficult. This study investigates urban climate design in Brisbane, Australia through semi-structured interviews with built environment professionals. A qualitative thematic analysis …
The Missing Link: Circularity in Urban Design - A Systematic Review of Circular Paradigms for Resilient and Self-sustaining Cities
Mapping forty years of smart environments for older people research: A scientometric review
Digital intervention in the city: A conceptual framework for digital placemaking
Playful digital interventions in placemaking: Constructing a typology for playable digital interventions in public spaces (PDIPS)
GenUrban: Shaping cities for all genders’- Right to the city planning framework, Hong Kong
Urban morphology and spatial forms shape a city's character and user behavior , often embracing a particular type of people and unwelcoming other kinds of gender. City design policies and legislation have favored men since its beginning, affecting overall urban planning and design. While the world is delving into new techniques and methods to empower women, constraints in public space activities remain prevalent. This paper explores the scope of …
How accessible are neighbourhood open spaces? Control of public space and its management in contemporary cities
Water urbanism and “living with flooding”: A case study in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Water in deltaic settlements is generally treated as a hazard or threat to vulnerable communities. This study aims to explore the social and spatial practices of three communities in Cai Rang, in Can Tho City, Mekong Delta, Vietnam. The aim is to discuss how “living with flooding” can inform a water urbanism perspective that might be useful to planners and designers in other deltaic environments. A mixed method approach is used to uncover how hou…
How does the public engage with innovation districts? Societal impact assessment of Australian innovation districts
Mapping Brisbane’s Casual Creative Corridor: Land use and policy implications of a new genre in urban creative ecosystems
Conceptual frameworks of innovation district place quality: An opinion paper
University and innovation district symbiosis in the context of placemaking: Insights from Australian cities
How can an enhanced community engagement with innovation districts be established? Evidence from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane
A systematic review of reasons for and against asking patients about their socioeconomic contexts
This first summary of literature on the subject found many published reasons for why patients' social and economic circumstances should be enquired about in healthcare settings. These reasons include potential benefits at the levels of individuals, health service provision, and population, as well as the potential to improve healthcare equity. Cautions and caveats include concerns about the clinician's role in responding to patients' social probl…
Place making for innovation and knowledge-intensive activities: The Australian experience
Attributes of successful place-making in knowledge and innovation spaces: Evidence from Brisbane’s Diamantina knowledge precinct
Place-making in knowledge and innovation spaces is a challenging task for planners and designers due to the lack of competent conceptual frameworks and design guidelines. To address this issue, this study adopts a qualitative methodological approach to carry out an empirical investigation in a case study from Brisbane, Australia, i.e., Diamantina Knowledge Precinct. This investigation is guided by a conceptual framework derived from the interdisc…
Societal integration that matters: Place making experience of Macquarie Park Innovation District, Sydney
Exploring Environmental Colour Design in Urban Contexts
The increasing complexity of urban colour and growing recognition of its psychological effects prompts rethinking of the current conceptual and methodological approaches to environmental colour design. Contemporary designers are challenged to understand how evolving colour knowledge can be integrated with the fundamentals of colour design. This paper aims to elaborate on the concept of environmental colour composition (ECC) and outlines an altern…
Dangerous Safety or Safely Dangerous. Perception of safety and self-awareness in public space
Exposure to perceived danger awakens our environmental awareness and sense of individual responsibility. In our rapidly evolving contemporary urban environments, the design of public space is often constrained and focussed on risk mitigation. Designers often rely on the inclusion of mechanisms to control behaviours (eg walls and fences) or rely on displays of authoritarian surveillance (eg CCTV and extensive warning signage). Measures also known …
Does place quality matter for innovation districts? Determining the essential place characteristics from Brisbane’s knowledge precincts
Evaluating place quality in innovation districts: A Delphic hierarchy process approach
Place quality in innovation clusters: An empirical analysis of global best practices from Singapore, Helsinki, New York, and Sydney
Evaluating place quality in innovation districts: A Delphic hierarchy process approach
Place quality in innovation clusters: An empirical analysis of global best practices from Singapore, Helsinki, New York, and Sydney
Does place quality matter for innovation districts? Determining the essential place characteristics from Brisbane’s knowledge precincts
How can an enhanced community engagement with innovation districts be established? Evidence from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane
University and innovation district symbiosis in the context of placemaking: Insights from Australian cities
Urban growth and development of contemporary neighbourhood public space in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
GenUrban: Shaping cities for all genders’- Right to the city planning framework, Hong Kong
Urban morphology and spatial forms shape a city's character and user behavior , often embracing a particular type of people and unwelcoming other kinds of gender. City design policies and legislation have favored men since its beginning, affecting overall urban planning and design. While the world is delving into new techniques and methods to empower women, constraints in public space activities remain prevalent. This paper explores the scope of …
How accessible are neighbourhood open spaces? Control of public space and its management in contemporary cities
Conceptual frameworks of innovation district place quality: An opinion paper
Mapping Brisbane’s Casual Creative Corridor: Land use and policy implications of a new genre in urban creative ecosystems
Public space design of knowledge and innovation spaces: Learnings from Kelvin Grove Urban Village, Brisbane
The era of knowledge-based urban development has led to an unprecedented increase in mobility of people and the subsequent growth in new typologies of agglomerated enclaves of knowledge such as knowledge and innovation spaces. Within this context, a new role has been assigned to contemporary public spaces to attract and retain the mobile knowledge workforce by creating a sense of place. This paper investigates place making in the globalized knowl…
Enriching Architectural Design Education through Interactive Displays and Local Community Engagement
Designers have a social responsibility to deal with the needs, issues, and problems confronting their clients and communities. Students of design require opportunities to reflect on their role as social facilitators to develop an attitude towards community engagement through different phases and aspects of their careers. Current design courses are challenged by compressed timeframes and fragmented scenarios of different academic requirements that…
Place quality and urban competitiveness symbiosis? A position paper
Urban agglomerations - where innovation and knowledge generation activities take place - are in a tough competition to become a major player in the global knowledge economy. It is claimed that soft measures - namely quality of life and place - help in fostering and attracting talent, and consequently draw investment to these urban localities. This paper aims to scrutinise the role of soft measures in supporting urban competitiveness through a cri…
An open access forum for the discussion and advancement of research about public space
The discourse about public spaces is generally dominated by exempla coming mainly from Europe and North America, where in the 1960s and 1970s main theories about use and navigation of the built environment have been developed. If on one side cases from these cultural areas are more accessible, on the other side interesting and relevant experiences are today developed all over the world, starting with the innovative and highly socially relevant in…
Public Space for Street-Scape Theatrics. Guerrilla Spatial Tactics and Methods of Urban Hacking in Brisbane, Australia
It could be argued that architecture has an inherent social responsibility to enrich the urban and spatial environments for the city’s occupants. However, how we define quality, and how ‘places’ can be designed to be fair and equitable, catering for individuals on a humanistic and psychological level, is often not clearly addressed. Lefebvre discusses the idea of the ‘right to the city’; the belief that public space design should facilitate freed…
Place Making for Knowledge Generation and Innovation: Planning and Branding Brisbane's Knowledge Community Precincts
Knowledge generation and innovation have been a priority for global city administrators particularly during the last couple of decades. This is mainly due to the growing consensus in identifying knowledge-based urban development as a panacea for burgeoning economic problems. Place making has become a critical element for success in knowledge-based urban development as planning and branding places is claimed to be an effective marketing tool for a…
Urban growth and development of contemporary neighbourhood public space in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Governance that matters: Identifying place-making challenges of Melbourne’s Monash Employment Cluster
Purpose This study aims to scrutinise the prominence of place making as a strategy in the development of knowledge and innovation spaces with a specific focus on distinguishing the role of governance. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a multidimensional conceptual framework of place making to investigate a knowledge and innovation space case through a qualitative analysis approach involving a range of key stakeholders. Findings The stu…
Our commitment to implement contents related to public space included in the New Urban Agenda adopted at the UN Habitat III conference
On the 20 th October 2016, at the United Nations Habitat III conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, held in Quito, Ecuador, the New Urban Agenda (NUA) was adopted, providing a 20-year framework on how cities should be planned and managed to best promote sustainable urbanization globally. The document, as reported by Dr. Joan Clos, Secretary-General of the conference and Executive Director of the UN Human Settlements Programme (U…
Context, contribution and characteristics of public spaces for place making in contemporary knowledge and innovation spaces. Observations from Brisbane, Australia
The advanced era of knowledge-based urban development has led to an unprecedented increase in mobility of people and subsequent growth in new typologies of agglomerated enclaves of knowledge such as urban knowledge and innovation spaces. Within this context, a new role has been assigned to contemporary public spaces to attract and retain the mobile knowledge workforce by creating a sense of place. This paper investigates the context, characterist…
Urban Coding in Logan. Teaching urban design with the support of local government
Since 2015 Logan City Council (LCC), a major urban area south of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, has hosted students from the Bachelor of Design (Architectural Studies) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) for an intensive two-day urban design charrette. The charrette is delivered as coursework and assessment for an architecture unit on urban morphology and urban dynamics; the format of this learning experience allows students to d…
Stand up for Public Space! A networking event at the Habitat III conference and a global online campaign
At Habitat III, the United Nations conference on Housing and Sustainable Development, held in Quito, Ecuador (17-20 th October, 2016), we launched the global online campaign 'Stand up for Public Space!' - www.standupforpublicspace.org - which is a research project promoted by City Space Architecture in collaboration with the Queensland University of Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, LASE+CityUrb Ecuador and the University of Auckla…
Urban Visions. Beyond the Ideal City | Report from the Habitat III Village, Pop-up Public Space
‘Urban Visions. Beyond the Ideal City’ was an event held at Habitat III, the United Nations conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, in Ecuador, included in a series of meetings and events at the Pop-up Public Space, Habitat III Village, in Parque El Ejido in Quito. On 26 th October 2016, we presented two research projects aiming at community engagement on issues related to the future of the urban environment: - the "InstaBooth", …
Attributes of successful place-making in knowledge and innovation spaces: Evidence from Brisbane’s Diamantina knowledge precinct
Place-making in knowledge and innovation spaces is a challenging task for planners and designers due to the lack of competent conceptual frameworks and design guidelines. To address this issue, this study adopts a qualitative methodological approach to carry out an empirical investigation in a case study from Brisbane, Australia, i.e., Diamantina Knowledge Precinct. This investigation is guided by a conceptual framework derived from the interdisc…
Societal integration that matters: Place making experience of Macquarie Park Innovation District, Sydney
Exploring Environmental Colour Design in Urban Contexts
The increasing complexity of urban colour and growing recognition of its psychological effects prompts rethinking of the current conceptual and methodological approaches to environmental colour design. Contemporary designers are challenged to understand how evolving colour knowledge can be integrated with the fundamentals of colour design. This paper aims to elaborate on the concept of environmental colour composition (ECC) and outlines an altern…
Dangerous Safety or Safely Dangerous. Perception of safety and self-awareness in public space
Exposure to perceived danger awakens our environmental awareness and sense of individual responsibility. In our rapidly evolving contemporary urban environments, the design of public space is often constrained and focussed on risk mitigation. Designers often rely on the inclusion of mechanisms to control behaviours (eg walls and fences) or rely on displays of authoritarian surveillance (eg CCTV and extensive warning signage). Measures also known …
Does place quality matter for innovation districts? Determining the essential place characteristics from Brisbane’s knowledge precincts
Evaluating place quality in innovation districts: A Delphic hierarchy process approach
Place quality in innovation clusters: An empirical analysis of global best practices from Singapore, Helsinki, New York, and Sydney
A systematic review of reasons for and against asking patients about their socioeconomic contexts
This first summary of literature on the subject found many published reasons for why patients' social and economic circumstances should be enquired about in healthcare settings. These reasons include potential benefits at the levels of individuals, health service provision, and population, as well as the potential to improve healthcare equity. Cautions and caveats include concerns about the clinician's role in responding to patients' social probl…
Place making for innovation and knowledge-intensive activities: The Australian experience
How does the public engage with innovation districts? Societal impact assessment of Australian innovation districts
Mapping Brisbane’s Casual Creative Corridor: Land use and policy implications of a new genre in urban creative ecosystems
Conceptual frameworks of innovation district place quality: An opinion paper
Sociology (23 works) · Engineering (22 works) · Political science (22 works) · Geography (21 works) · Computer Science (19 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (16 works) · Business (15 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Knowledge management (11 works)