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Factors related with public open space use among adolescents: a study using GPS and accelerometers [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Geographics, 2018
Background Low physical activity levels and high levels of sedentary time among adolescents call for population wide interventions. Public open spaces can be important locations for adolescents’ physical activity.
Linde Van Hecke   +7 more
doaj   +3 more sources

On the Safety of Mobile Robots Serving in Public Spaces

open access: yesACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact., 2021
Since 2014, a specific standard has been dedicated for the safety certification of personal care robots, which operate in close proximity to humans.
P. Salvini   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Future of Urban Cemeteries as Public Spaces: Insights from Oslo and Copenhagen

open access: yesPlanning Theory & Practice, 2021
Public spaces are believed to make cities more liveable, healthy and socially equal. To date, discussions about public spaces have primarily revolved around emblematic types, such as squares and parks, while little attention has been paid to cemeteries ...
Pavel Grabalov, H. Nordh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Changing perceptions and usage of public and pseudo-public spaces in the post-pandemic city: the case of Istanbul

open access: yesUrban Design International, 2021
Public space has critical importance for the city and society because it forms a sense of community. The debate on the end of public space, which is ongoing as the privatization in the city rises, moves on to a new phase with the Covid-19 outbreak. Since
M. Paköz, Cansu Sözer, Ayşen Doğan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Robots in public spaces: implications for policy design

open access: yesPolicy Design and Practice, 2021
Rapid advances in digital technologies have allowed robots to become more autonomous and efficacious than ever before. Future developments in robotics hold the potential to transform human robot interactions.
Michael Mintrom   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Growing public spaces in the city: Community gardening and the making of new urban environments of publicness

open access: yesUrban studies, 2021
The demise of public space in cities across the Global North has received considerable scrutiny from urban scholars in recent years, with accounts of the loss, privatisation and increased regulation of public space prevalent within the academic ...
P. Milbourne
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The 2014 American State Litter Scorecard FINAL: USA's Dirtiest & Cleanest States Includes Statistics and Charts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
A NEW State Litter "Scorecard" is released for the 2014 American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Conference. Every three years, the Scorecard approximates each state's overall public spaces environmental quality through tried-and-true, hard-to ...
Antoine, J., Vandergheynst, P.
core   +3 more sources

How municipalities should approach the transformation of public spaces

open access: yesActa Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 2022
Public spaces are the living rooms of cities, accessible to everyone without any restrictions. Public spaces are the calling card of the city; they are where the community comes together. Their design either enables or complicates community life.
Michaela Malá   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Classification of Urban Spaces: An Attempt to Classify Al-Baha City Urban Spaces Using Carmona’s Classification

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2022
Due to an increasingly complex mixture of different types of public spaces and their functions in cities, the role of public spaces can be enhanced to serve users under certain circumstances.
Abdulaziz Alzahrani
doaj   +1 more source

Analysing Pedestrian Traffic Around Public Displays [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper presents a powerful approach to evaluating public technologies by capturing and analysing pedestrian traffic using computer vision. This approach is highly flexible and scales better than traditional ethnographic techniques often used to ...
Williamson, John, Williamson, Julie R.
core   +1 more source

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