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Enhancing liveability through urban intensification: The idea and role of neighbourhood

Cogent Social Sciences, 2018
This paper considers the contention that higher density neighbourhoods can lead to enhanced liveability, and examines the idea and role of neighbourhood to achieve this aim and policy goal. It reports on the findings from fifty-seven in-depth qualitative
Natalie Allen, Errol Haarhoff, Lee Beattie   +2 more
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CONCEPTUALIZING THE LIVEABLE AFRICAN CITY

Journal of Construction Project Management and Innovation, 2013
This paper attempts to conceptualize the liveable African City using indices of liveability as advanced by Africans. The concepts of City Liveability and the City as a living system are used as the theoretical underpinnings to the study.
Taibat Lawanson, Taofiki Salau, Omoayena Yadua   +2 more
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LIVEABLE AND HEALTHY CITY DESIGN [PDF]

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 2018
The paper deals with the topics related to the healthy city. Liveability in public spaces is the main argument developed in a case study.
openaire   +4 more sources

Water, Sanitation and Health: The World Bank's Financing of Sustainable Development Goal 6

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The World Bank has an explicit commitment to financing projects aimed at ensuring access to drinking water and sanitation (SDG 6), given their implications for countries' development. The objective of this study is to analyse its performance over the past decades, in order to understand the evolution of the allocated amount and the ...
Cristina Martínez‐Gómez, Leticia Gallego‐Valero, Encarnación Moral‐Pajares   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing places' liveability: informational entropy for the construction of a set of criteria and indicators

Aestimum
The growing interest in well-being as a quality-of-life paradigm has led to a critical revision of its traditional conception. It is no longer limited to indicators of material prosperity and physical health (objective well-being indicators) but also to
Fabrizio Battisti, Orazio Campo, Melania Perdonò   +2 more
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How Aligned Are Citizen Preferences With the 15‐Minute Cities Paradigm? An International Survey and K‐Means Clustering Study

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how citizens' mobility preferences align with the principles of the 15‐Minute City (15mC), addressing three research questions: what access times and transport modes citizens consider acceptable, whether mobility preference can be clustered, and which services are perceived incompatible with the 15mC.
Maria Perales‐Eguiluz, A. Divasson‐J, Nekane Ione Sainz Bedoya, Cruz E. Borges   +3 more
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Efficiency of using mixed feeds with different levels of lysine and methionine for growing turkeys

Наукові доповіді Національного університету біоресурсів і природокористування України
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of feeding complete mixed feeds with different levels of lysine and methionine on the growth of young turkeys. Experimental studies were performed on young meat turkeys of the BIG 6 cross.
O. Tymoshchuk, S. Gryshchenko
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Audit of the Tasmanian Transport-Related Physical Activity Policy Environment-Lessons for Comprehensive Policy Making. [PDF]

Health Promot J Austr
ABSTRACT Issue Addressed Government policy largely determines the transport‐related physical activity (TRPA) environment—an environment central to global PA promotion frameworks (e.g., Global Action Plan on Physical Activity). However, little is known about this policy environment—a knowledge gap this study aimed to fill in Tasmania.
Sharman MJ, Mclaughlin M, McCue P, Washington T, Cleland VJ.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Tourism Specialisation and Sustainable Development Performance in Spanish Cities

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tourism specialisation and sustainable development performance are key dimensions of urban sustainability debates. This study investigates the association between tourism specialisation and sustainable development performance, operationalised through the sustainable development goals (SDGs), in Spanish cities.
Ana‐María Ríos, María‐Dolores Guillamón, Bernardino Benito   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Checklist: Meta‐Indicators for Evaluating Effectiveness of Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment Tools

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment Tools (NSATs) are widely used to support sustainable urban planning, development assessment and neighbourhood‐scale decision‐making. However, existing tools continue to exhibit persistent limitations, including uneven coverage of sustainability dimensions, limited governance integration, weak stakeholder
Tayyaba Riaz, Tony Matthews, Aysin Dedekorkut‐Howes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source