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Evaluating the Equity of Urban Streetscapes in Promoting Human Health—Taking Shanghai Inner City as an Example

open access: yesLand, 2023
Environmental justice research largely focuses on the allocation of public resources in terms of quantified distribution and accessibility. This study suggests that the quality of landscape equity, an important urban resource, should be evaluated as it ...
Yuhan Shao, Yuting Yin, Dongbo Ma
doaj   +1 more source

Urban design process with community participation for streetscapes in Hanoi

open access: yesJournal of Science and Technology in Civil Engineering (STCE) - NUCE, 2018
"Urban design" and "community participation" are two topics that attract attention of the professionals and the society in these recent years in Vietnam. However, these topics are not studied and piloted thoroughly enough to have effective urban design process with community involvements in each step of the process.
Pham Thuy Loan, Ta Quynh Hoa
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The influence of architectural detailing, massing, and design interest on the evaluation of heritage and historic urban streetscapes

open access: yes, 2000
Research in environmental perception has illustrated that contextual compatibility and building facade ornamentation are important determiners of preference for specific architectural designs. This study extended these ideas by investigating the perceptions of contextual compatibility between two groups when assessing heritage and historic urban ...
Boyko, Christopher T.
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A Machine Learning and Computer Vision Study of the Environmental Characteristics of Streetscapes That Affect Pedestrian Satisfaction

open access: yesSustainability, 2022
Pedestrian-friendly cities are a recent global trend due to the various urbanization problems. Since humans are greatly influenced by sight while walking, this study identified the physical and visual characteristics of the street environment that affect
Jiyun Lee, Donghyun Kim, Jina Park
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sustainable Streetscape Design Guideline based on Universal Design Principles

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
People access the streets to fulfill their daily demands regardless of their gender, age, and abilities. The streetscape is an urban public space which built to facilitate the basic needs of people as social beings. Universal design accommodates the wide
Harsritanto Bangun IR
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An Ethology of Urban Fabric(s)

open access: yesA Peer-Reviewed Journal About, 2014
With this piece, we wish to open up a patch- work of relational thinking of the ethology of urban fabric(s) from a post-digital perspective. The semantic of the urban fabric normally denotes the “physical aspect of urbanism, emphasizing building types ...
Jonas Fritsch, Marie Stavning Thomsen
doaj   +1 more source

The Bagua as an Intermediary between Archaic Chinese Geomancy and Early European Urban Planning and Design

open access: yesJournal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism, 2021
Present-day concerns with urban design for pedestrians largely surround the issue of microclimate in streetscapes. Such concerns are not new and have been extensively discussed during the European Renaissance.
A. Akkerman, Jing Shao
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Turning Urban Streets from Infrastructures into Living Places Early Research Outcomes of a Case Study in Prato, Tuscany

open access: yesEnvironmental Science and Sustainable Development, 2022
In the second half of the twentieth century urban landscapes were affected by heavy infrastructural development. With regard to streets, managing the growing fluidity and speed of motor vehicle flows has been a priority for most designers. Nowadays there
Gabriele Paolinelli, Lorenza Fortuna
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Improving women's accessibility to public transport through participatory street experiments: The case of Maltepe, Istanbul

open access: yesJournal of Urban Mobility, 2023
Building on the literature concerning gender-responsive mobility, this paper aims to explore how street experiments can be used to promote gendered mobilities and create streetscapes in order to prioritise the needs of women in the improvement of access ...
Eda Beyazit   +4 more
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Which architectural style makes an attractive streetscape? Aesthetic preferences among city centre managers [Elektronisk resurs]

open access: yes, 2023
Rational design based on aesthetic principles from the 1930s dominates contemporary architecture and property development, contributing to a homogenous urban landscape.
Thufvesson, Ola,   +2 more
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