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Westwood Multimodal Transportation Plan [PDF]

, 2020
Westwood is experiencing an industrial regeneration that will change the way the area is utilized by the surrounding communities. To be proactive, Henrico County is planning for the future by creating an overlay zoning district and striving for a ...
Austin, Ashley N
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Value of Trail Access on Home Purchases [PDF]

We use hedonic analysis of home sales data from the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area to estimate the effects of access of different types of trails on home value. Our model includes proximity to three distinct types bicycle facilities, controlling for local
David Levinson, Kevin Krizek, Paul Mogush   +2 more
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Monitor Sustainable Municipalities Report 2019 Key topic Circular Economy. Bertelsmann Stiftung Study 4 November 2019 [PDF]

, 2019
At first sight, the concept for a recycling economy appears to be just the latest trend in the field of urban development, but in fact conversion to circular value creation also contains numerous oppor-tunities for the creation of long-term sustainable ...
Beckmann, Janpeter, Dhawan, Piyush
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Energy and Smart Growth: It's about How and Where We Build [PDF]

, 2004
By efficiently locating development, smarter growth land use policies and practices offer a viable way to reduce U.S. energy consumption. Moreover, by increasing attention on how we build, in addition to where we build, smart growth could become even ...
Naomi Friedman
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Assessment of metropolitan livability variations using objective-subjective approach

World Development Sustainability
A case of the rapid propensity of urbanization leading to skewed dynamics of metropolitan urban agglomeration (MUA) and its extent of complementarities with the socio-economic and socio-cultural well-being of the communities. Analyses of the dynamics and
Arpan Paul
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Smart Growth: A Catalyst for Public-Interest Investment [PDF]

, 1999
Written by a former mayor of Seattle, this Article describes the smart growth movement as a way to sustain the livability of large urban centers in the twenty-first strategy.
Rice, Honorable Norman B.
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Assessing urban livability in Shanghai through an open source data-driven approach

npj Urban Sustainability
Urban livability has become a major policy and practice priority in many parts of the world. However, its attainment remains challenging in many cities of developing and emerging economies. The lack of data with appropriate quality, coverage, and spatial
Yin Long, Yi Wu, Liqiao Huang, Jelena Aleksejeva, Deljana Iossifova, Nannan Dong, Alexandros Gasparatos   +6 more
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Livability and futures studies of worn-out urban textures: Scenario analysis for evaluating the livability system and achieving sustainability

International Journal of Strategic Property Management
Urban worn-out textures, due to their ancient and historically valuable physical structures, exhibit low adaptability to urban developments and advancements. Tehran, as a city with a rich historical background, also boasts considerable worn-out textures.
Sarfaraz Hashemkhani Zolfani, Seyed Mostafa Hedayatnezhad Kashi, Jurgita Antuchevičienė   +2 more
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Building Age-Friendly Community: Notes from the Field [PDF]

, 2016
Building age-friendly communities is a global as well as a national concern. The purpose of this paper is to explore fundamental tensions underlying the formulation of age-friendly goals and their implementation, based on a review of age-friendly ...
Filinson, Rachel, Maigret, Maureen, Raimondo, Marianne   +2 more
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On Measuring the Complexity of Urban Living [PDF]

This paper explores the concept of city ranking as a way to measure dynamics and complexities of urban life. These rankings have various dimensions and uses.
Hasan, Lubna Hasan
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