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City, Territory and ArchitectureSustainable streetscape design is one of the determining factors for a city’s success. A sustainable streetscape is planned to accommodate community activities and provide spatial and visual comfort.
Hilma Tamiami Fachrudin +2 more
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Inclusive streetscapes: Embedding disabled people's lived experience into street accessibility
Wellbeing, Space and SocietyDisabled people face significant barriers in participating in society, reporting higher anxiety, limited access to education and lower employment prospects compared to non-disabled people.
Arun Ulahannan +2 more
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Journal of Water and Land Development, 2020 The paper aims to answer the following questions: What are the trends in streetscape design? And how can streetscape become more resilient to climate change in the coming years? Although the research questions of exploratory nature also challenge theoretical claims, this is a hypothetical study, designed to foster a discussion about the visions of the ...
Magdalena Wojnowska-Heciak +2 more
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ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night‐time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred on the darker side of these, pointing to workers' precarity and vulnerability. What if we attend also to a ‘brighter side’ of the night and night
Jesse Mentha +3 more
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The impact of street characteristics on older pedestrians’ perceived safety in Shanghai, China
Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2020 Land-use patterns and rapid urban sprawl greatly influence older adults’ mobility in China. Older pedestrians’ safety issues are crucial because these people are more frequently injured in traffic accidents.
Hao Wu +3 more
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TAXI, CHILLI AND MOBILE PARTY BRANCH: Reterritorialization of Migrants in Urban Villages, Shenzhen
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In China as well as in other countries, migrants often grapple with urban inequities by actively reshaping the functions and meanings of their environments. While acknowledging established frameworks such as place‐making and urban informality, this study adopts a complementary lens, framing migrants’ everyday practices as a process of ...
Xinrui Gao, Jennifer Day, Sun Sheng Han
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Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson +2 more
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THE RESEARCH AND EVALUATION OF ROAD ENVIRONMENT IN THE BLOCK OF CITY BASED ON 3-D STREETSCAPE DATA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018 This paper focus on the problem of the street environment of block unit, based on making clear the acquisition mode and characteristics of 3D streetscape data，the paper designs the assessment model of regional block unit based on 3D streetscape data. The
L. Guan +5 more
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Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning, 2023 This paper examines placemaking and the outcomes of urban design issues in a waterfront area. The fine-grained urban fabric has played an important role in waterfront regeneration schemes globally. Acting towards environmental challenges to provide green
Mehmet Aytekin Saygılı +1 more
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Virtual audits of streetscapes by crowdworkers
Health & Place, 2019 Audits have been used to provide objective ratings of neighborhood environments. Physical audits, however, are time- and resource-intensive. This study examines the efficiency and reliability of virtual auditing using Google Street View and crowdsourcing to conduct walkability audits of streets in Japan. Overall, 830 street segments were physically and
Hanibuchi, Tomoya +2 more
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