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An Investigation On The Liveability Of Urban Settlement. Case Study: Mandy Villa, Segambut, Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 Urban areas are the main centres of growth in every country. However, urban areas face challenges such as environmental destruction, social deprivation, insecurity, health problem, and accessibility issue.
Hoon Leh Oliver Ling +3 more
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Journal of Biological Engineering, 2019 Background Biofilters are soil-plant based passive stormwater treatment systems which demonstrate promising, although inconsistent, removal of faecal microorganisms.
P. Galbraith, R. Henry, D. T. McCarthy
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Ecology and Society, 2015 Adaptive capacity is widely held as a key property of resilient and transformative social-ecological systems. However, current knowledge of the term does not yet address key questions of how to operationalize this system condition to address ...
Yvette Bettini +2 more
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Liveable for whom? Prospects of urban liveability to address health inequities [PDF]
Social Science & Medicine, 2019 The aspiration of liveable cities, underpinned by the New Urban Agenda, is gaining popularity as a mechanism to enhance population health and wellbeing. However, less attention has been given to understanding how urban liveability may provide an opportunity to redress health inequities.
Hannah Badland, Jamie Pearce
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Globalization and Health, 2019 Background Creating ‘liveable’ cities has become a priority for various sectors, including those tasked with improving population health and reducing inequities.
Amanda Alderton +6 more
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MaaSim: A Liveability Simulation for Improving the Quality of Life in Cities [PDF]
, 2018 Urbanism is no longer planned on paper thanks to powerful models and 3D simulation platforms. However, current work is not open to the public and lacks an optimisation agent that could help in decision making. This paper describes the creation of an open-
A Konak +12 more
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Comparative Analysis of 20-Minute Neighbourhood Policies and Practices in Melbourne and Scotland
Urban Planning, 2022 Twenty-minute neighbourhoods highlight the importance of well-connected and mixed-used neighbourhoods and communities with proximate access to employment, essential services, public transport, and open spaces.
Hing-Wah Chau +5 more
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Enlarging the Human Climate Niche: Integrating Urban Heat Island in Urban Planning Interventions
Urban Planning, 2022 This article explores the potential of linking the scholarship on the human climate niche and heat island research. One such combination leads to a better understanding of the liveability of urban areas and thereby offers a contribution to emerging ...
Rayan Mounayar, Daniel Florentin
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Liveable Villages: The Relationship between Volunteering and Liveability in the Perceptions of Rural Residents [PDF]
Sociologia Ruralis, 2016 AbstractIn the Dutch policy discourse it is increasingly thought that active citizenship will positively affect satisfaction with the living environment. This article challenges this assumption by examining whether and how volunteering in village life and individual perceptions of liveability are interrelated.
Gieling, Joost, Haartsen, Tialda
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Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 Local knowledge of spatiotemporal patterns of liveability is vital for choosing where to live and where revitalisation efforts must concentrate. We employed transdisciplinary learning to identify 12 liveability indicators and applied them to assess the ...
Alex Barimah Owusu +5 more
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