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International Journal of Health Geographics, 2019 Background Designing healthy, liveable cities is a global priority. Current liveability indices are aggregated at the city-level, do not reflect spatial variation within cities, and are often not aligned to policy or health.
Carl Higgs +4 more
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Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2023 North African cities have been undergoing major transformation over the past two decades following protracted instability, civic uprising, and conflicts, changing their perception from havens to territories of displacements with social, psychological ...
Khairi Abdulla, Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem
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Land, 2021 Can sustainability and liveability be simultaneously pursued at the neighbourhood level? Adopting neighbourhood satisfaction as a proxy to indicate liveability at the neighbourhood scale, this paper investigated how the residential subjective perception ...
Qi Zhang +2 more
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Public Green Infrastructure Contributes to City Livability: A Systematic Quantitative Review
Land, 2018 Consistent with the Land Urbanism and Green Infrastructure theme of this special issue of Land, the primary goal of this review is to provide a plain language overview of recent literature that reports on the psychological, physiological, general well ...
Jackie Parker, Greg D. Simpson
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Housing adaptability: new research, emerging practices and challenges
Buildings & Cities, 2022 Highlights The underlying issues of why housing adaptability is important today are introduced, together with the drivers and barriers to uptake. This editorial explains the different kinds of adaptability (environmental, spatial, social and multi-use(r))
Sofie Pelsmakers, Elanor Warwick
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Comparative review of liveability indices: trends and insights
Budownictwo i ArchitekturaThe concept of liveability emerged and thrived over two decades, with over thirty global and regional measurable indices developed by various organisations and agencies.
Meenakshi Pappu, Nina Lazar
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Understanding the Importance of Urban Amenities: A Case Study from Auckland
Buildings, 2015 Along with many Pacific Rim cities in Australia and North America, Auckland, New Zealand has enacted an urban growth management strategy premised on two concepts: “liveability” and a “quality compact city”.
Natalie Allen
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Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of a Just Regional Energy Transition: What If We Ask Citizens?
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The installation of wind turbines and solar parks in valued rural landscapes has led to local concerns and perceived injustices to the extent that the societal acceptance of the energy transition is at stake. Although the literature on energy justice is blooming, research into citizens' understandings of justice with regards to regional energy
Simone Haarbosch +3 more
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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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An experimental determination of perceived liveability in Sydney [PDF]
, 2012 Liveability is a concept and factor being used by urban planners and designers to better understand how people perceive the places they live and work in and how it affects their life choices. Existing normative liveability indices are based on measurable
Berryman, Matthew +3 more
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