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Policy relevant health related liveability indicator datasets for addresses in Australia’s 21 largest cities [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Data, 2023
Measuring and monitoring the spatial distribution of liveability is crucial to ensure that implemented urban and transport planning decisions support health and wellbeing. Spatial liveability indicators can be used to ensure these decisions are effective,
Carl Higgs   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

On the relationships between auditory and visual factors in a residential environment context: A SEM approach [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
To understand the effects of specific elements that may enhance or detract residents’ well-being, it is important to explore the relationships between auditory and visual factors, based on people’s sensory experiences.
Luis Garzón   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Queer liveability: Inclusive church-scenes [PDF]

open access: yesSexualities, 2018
This article explores queer religious youths’ engagement with the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) – a church founded as a space of worship for LGBT Christians. Interested in sources of well-being in queer people’s lives, we show how MCC provided young religious queer people with a sense of home, family, and a phenomenological experience of ‘fit ...
Cuthbert, Karen, Taylor, Yvette
openaire   +4 more sources

Liveability Considerations: Towards Designing Sustainable Public Housing in Niger State, Nigeria

open access: yesJournal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2023
This study investigates liveability in the context of sustainable public housing in Niger State, Nigeria, where existing housing efforts have fallen short of residents' satisfaction.
Paul Baba Haruna   +3 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps to Assess Liveability in Slum Upgrading Schemes: Case of Pune, India

open access: yesUrban Science, 2021
Liveability assessments of informal urban settlements are scarce. In India, a number of slum upgrading schemes have been implemented over the last decades aiming at better living conditions.
Subhashree Nath, Raphael Karutz
doaj   +1 more source

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIVEABILITY AND PRICE OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSES – A CASE STUDY OF SHENZHEN [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020
This study proposes an index for cities in China to measure the liveability of real estate. This liveability index combines indicators from four dimensions including education, transportation, living facilities and entertainment, and can be quickly ...
L. Liu, L. Liu
doaj   +1 more source

More than This: Liveable Melbourne Meets Liveable Vancouver [PDF]

open access: yesUrban Planning International, 2013
Lessons from two leaders in the liveable cities race, Vancouver and Melbourne, demonstrate that these cities have followed a quite similar development, policy and planning path and now ride the crest of the wave while facing comparable challenges in preparing for the future.
Meg Holden, Andy Scerri
openaire   +1 more source

An Analysis of Residents' views of the Neighborhoods in the District 8 of Tehran about the Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on the Indicators and Factors of Livable Neighborhoods [PDF]

open access: yesبرنامه‌ریزی توسعه شهری و منطقه‌ای, 2020
The outbreak of the covid-19 virus has faced cities with many challenges. The most important of which is endangering the sustainability and livability of urban neighborhoods. Actions recommended by the World Health Organization to prevent the outbreak of
Maryam Ghorbanpour   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE ON NEIGHBOURHOOD LIVEABILITY IN CYBERJAYA, MALAYSIA: A GLOBAL TECHNOLOGICAL HUB [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Urban and Regional Analysis, 2023
The phenomenon of rapid urbanisation that has occurred since the 1950s has presented opportunities for growth and innovation in cities, primarily through the utilisation of urban agglomerations and economies of scale.
Foroogh Ali Komak   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Diagnostic Procedure for Transformative Change Based on Transitions, Resilience, and Institutional Thinking

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2013
Urban water governance regimes around the world have traditionally planned large-scale, centralized infrastructure systems that aim to control variables and reduce uncertainties.
Briony C. Ferguson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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