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Perceived Urban Design Across Urban Typologies in Hanoi

open access: yesJournal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2023
In light of the rapid global urbanization, urban design has been shown to contribute largely to promoting the health and well-being of urban citizens.
Thanh Ho, Mark Stevenson, Jason Thompson
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Obesity, diet quality, physical activity, and the built environment: the need for behavioral pathways

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2016
Background The built environment (BE) is said to influence local obesity rates. Few studies have explored causal pathways between home-neighborhood BE variables and health outcomes such as obesity.
Adam Drewnowski   +6 more
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Urban form and livability: socioeconomic and built environment indicators

open access: yes, 2021
Spatial relations among urban elements (buildings, streets, etc.) constantly affect the quality of urban spaces, creating more or less livable cities. The study of urban form has been a way of objectively quantifying such relations to understand their ...
Nicholas Martino, C. Girling, Yuhao Lu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

"Questioni di architettura e urbanistica". Giancarlo De Carlo and the Unity of Disciplines

open access: yesHistories of Postwar Architecture, 2020
In 1964, when Giancarlo De Carlo published Questioni di architettura e urbanistica, was already a well-known figure in Italian architectural culture; a reputation due above all to the professional activity, on which he built his fame.
Rita D'Attorre
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The strength of the urban form [PDF]

open access: yesWIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 2011
Cities with more than 75% of consumption and 85% of global CO2 emissions are a major problem in our country. The continuous process of urbanization highlights the human need of city and denounces the need to transform the urban settlement from a weak to a strong future sustainability.
openaire   +3 more sources

A Conceptual Model for Assessing the Relationship between Urban Morphology and Sustainable Urban Form

open access: yesSustainability, 2022
The built environment witnessed rapid transformation after the industrial revolution. This transformation came along with some negativities, which gave rise to the concept of sustainability in urban form. In this regard, the current study aimed to assess
Abdollah Mobaraki, Beser Oktay Vehbi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

La configuración de las periferias en las ciudades intermedias españolas durante el siglo XX: Málaga, Murcia y Valladolid [PDF]

open access: yesCiudades, 2019
The comparative reading of urban expansion in Malaga, Murcia and Valladolid during the twentieth century allows identifying common phases in the construction of their peripheries.
Fernando Miguel Carcía Martín
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Relationships between urban form and air quality at different spatial scales: A case study from northern China

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2021
Examining the relationships between urban form and air quality on small spatial scales across multiple cities could simultaneously identify between- and within-city impacts.
Fan Li, Tao Zhou, F. Lan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Time, the other dimension of urban form: Measuring the relationship between urban density and accessibility to grocery shops in the 10-minute city

open access: yesEnvironment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, 2022
Compact settlements take advantage of economies of scale by sustaining a system of high-quality socio-economic services at close proximities. Urban density with a balanced mix of uses also benefits walking and cycling as mobility modes that provide ...
T. Kesarovski, F. Hernández-Palacio
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Urban Form Elements and Urban Potentiality ( Literature Review)

open access: yesJournal of Engineering, 2020
Morphological theories shape the leading platform to theoretically and practically consider the assets connected with the emergence of the city, and its growth and development over time.
Haider Jasim Essa Al-Saaidy
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