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Harnessing Street Canyons for Comprehensive Nature-Based Solutions

Land
Transport areas in urban environments typically cover 10–20% of a city’s area. Due to their hierarchical structure and network layout, they present a unique opportunity to integrate Nature-based Solutions (NbSs) within cities strategically.
Gabriela Maksymiuk, Joanna Adamczyk, Renata Giedych, Dorota Pusłowska-Tyszewska, Magdalena Kuchcik, Agata Cieszewska   +5 more
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Cultural Continuity : Preserving and Interpreting Cultural Heritage Through Design & Planning in Goa

International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
Preserving cultural heritage plays a crucial role in maintaining the cultural identity and historical continuity of societies, ensuring that future generations can connect with their past. This research paper investigates the role of Design & Planning in
Dr. Gautam V. Desai
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Reviving Streetscapes: Designing Biodiverse Streetscapes

This thesis explores the idea that streetscapes can support native biodiversity. The world is currently experiencing a biodiversity crisis, a situation partly driven by habitat loss resulting from the expansion of the built environment.
Price, Taylor
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Urban Comfort Perception Under Induced Emotional Conditions: A Multi-Method Analysis of Architectural and Streetscape Imagery Using Fractal Analysis, Self-Report, and Eye-Tracking

Architecture
This pilot study examines how experimentally induced emotional states interact with the visual properties of urban environments to shape comfort perception.
Satrio Agung Perwira, Bart Julien Dewancker, Dimas Herjuno   +2 more
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Street perceptions: A study of visual preferences for New Zealand streetscapes

, 2015
City leaders often make reference to their built and natural environments when they compete domestically or internationally for financial investment, tourism spending and high quality workers.
Gjerde, Morten, Morten Gjerde (8509041)
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Generated nighttime street view image to inform perceived safety divergence between day and night in high density cities: A case study in Hong Kong

Journal of Urban Management
Safety perception is widely considered a fundamental aspect of urban life, which significantly influences citizens' well-being and quality of life as well as having crucial impact on the nighttime economy. However, there is a scarcity of understanding of
Xiaotong Ye, Yuankai Wang, Jiajing Dai, Waishan Qiu   +3 more
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Developing a 360° built-environment assessment for urban research and planning practice

, 2022
The coronavirus pandemic highlighted the vital role urban areas play in supporting citizens’ health and well-being (Ribeiro et al., 2021). In times of (personal) vulnerability, citizens depend on their neighbourhood for performing daily physical ...
Suurenbroek, Frank, Spanjar, Gideon, Schramkó, Sába   +2 more
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Restorative Streetscapes: Promoting Positive Mental Health Outcomes through Urban Landscape Design in Winooski, Vermont

, 2022
The global health burden of mental health disorders is immense. The World Health Organization ranks depression as the single largest contributor to global disability; anxiety disorders alone rank sixth.
Fitzsimmons, Sean R.
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Enhancing neighborhood functionality through transit-oriented design, a study of sustainable development, proximity, and mobility

Frontiers in Built Environment
This study evaluates transit-oriented development (TOD) around Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates station to curb sprawl, reduce car dependence, and shorten trips.
Oussama Yahia, Afaq Hyder Chohan, Mohammad Arar, Muhammad Yousif Mangi   +3 more
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Sampling patterns and edge effects in a biodiversity study of urban linear streetscapes

In biodiversity monitoring programs, the selection of an unbiased sampling pattern has remained a significant challenge. This has been highlighted in systematic samplings where repeated habitat patterns may constantly occur or where over- or under ...
Beecham, Simon C, Kazemi, Fatemeh
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