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Urban Planning, 2022 Urban streets are an integral part of the public realm. Streets are commonly planned following normative design principles focused on the connectivity of road networks and urban morphology.
Jing Jing
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Using an audit tool (MAPS Global) to assess the characteristics of the physical environment related to walking for transport in youth : reliability of Belgian data [PDF]
, 2016 Background: The aim was to examine inter-rater and alternate-form reliability of the Microscale Audit of Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS) Global tool to assess the physical environment along likely walking routes in Belgium.
Cardon, Greet +9 more
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Can Virtual Streetscape Audits Reliably Replace Physical Streetscape Audits? [PDF]
Journal of Urban Health, 2010 There is increasing recognition that the neighborhood-built environment influences health outcomes, such as physical activity behaviors, and technological advancements now provide opportunities to examine the neighborhood streetscape remotely. Accordingly, the aims of this methodological study are to: (1) compare the efficiencies of physically and ...
Hannah M, Badland +4 more
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Land, 2022 Although investigators are using data sources to describe the visual characteristics of streets, few researchers have linked human perceptions of the street environment with human activity density.
Yilei Tao +4 more
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Buildings, 2023 This study explored the overall visual elements of arcade buildings and streetscapes from the perspective of tourists and then evaluated their influence on the identity and emotion of places.
Hao Fu +4 more
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On Visible Homelessness and the Micro-Aesthetics of Public Space [PDF]
, 2018 In this article, we investigate the circumstances that have produced the current municipal regulatory approach to homelessness in the City of Melbourne, Victoria, and the ways in which visibly homeless people are policed through a micro-aesthetics of ...
Adams L. +16 more
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Design Resources for the Waller Creek District [PDF]
, 2011 This resource contains an overview of projects and considerations associated with the Waller Creek restoration project. Links for more information are separated by high priority, recommended, and supplemental categories for user convenience.Waller Creek ...
City of Austin Planning and Development Review
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‘It’s better than daytime television’: questioning the socio-spatial impacts of massage parlours on residential communities [PDF]
, 2016 It has been shown that street sex work is problematic for some communities, but there is less evidence of the effects of brothels. Emerging research also suggests that impact discourses outlined by residential communities and in regulatory policies ...
Agustin L +15 more
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AdaptSTAR model: A climate-friendly strategy to promote built environment sustainability [PDF]
, 2013 Building adaptive reuse plays a critical role in emissions reduction and supports global climate protection. Thus, the designing of future buildings with embedded adaptive reuse potential is a useful criterion for sustainability. This paper describes the
Conejos, Sheila +2 more
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