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Measuring Urban Streetscapes for Livability: A Review of Approaches

The Professional Geographer, 2015
Increasing interest in urban livability demands that geographers and planners more precisely define what constitutes a livable streetscape, a fundamental building block of urban places. Widespread examination of streetscape livability will require precise and efficient measurements of (1) physical characteristics at the spatial scale of individual ...
Chester Harvey, Lisa Aultman-Hall
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Evaluation of Urban Livability in the Context of Urban Rights: The Case of Isparta

2023
Tarihsel bir yapı olarak karşımıza çıkan kentler, günümüzde insanların bir arada yaşadıkları temel yerleşim alanlarıdır. Bu yerleşim alanlarında yaşayan bireylerin ortak nitelikte çeşitli sorunları bulunmaktadır. Bu sorunların giderilebilmesi yani kentsel yaşanabilirliğin sağlanabilmesi için Türkiye’nin de taraf olduğu Avrupa Kentsel Şartı 1992'de
YALÇIN, Özkan, SADIÇ, Veli
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Livability and sustainability in large urban regions [PDF]

, 2011
By the year 2030, five billion of us will live in cities or large urban regions, many of which will be home to more than 10 million inhabitants. This new urban world brings together a high concentration of human densities and economic activities, placing heavy demands on the environment through increased energy consumption and air pollution.
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Livable Cities

Livable Cities: Urban Heat Islands Mitigation for Climate Change Adaptation Through Urban Greening elucidates on livability in urban areas, providing readers with definitions and indicators of what makes a city livable. It comprehensively introduces the urban heat island effect (UHIE) and offers strategies for mitigating high surface temperatures in ...
Antonella Trombadore, Mohsen Aboulnaga, Mona Mostafa, Ahmed Abouaiana   +3 more
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Livability of Urban Spaces

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Mohamed Sherif, Sara I. AbdulRahman, Mohamed Mandour   +2 more
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Evaluation Of The Place Of Urban Livability Concept In The Literature

2020
Rapid growth of cities leads to social and environmental problems. Transportation problems,security problem, recreation area deficiencies, pollution are some of these. These problems reduce the qualityof life and environment in cities. In other words, it reduces urban livability. In the urban livability literaturesurveys on the subject, it is seen that,
Aliağaoğlu, Alpaslan, Çetinkaya, Sema
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Promoting livability through urban planning: A comprehensive framework based on the “theory of human needs”

Cities, 2022
Jeroen van Ameijde
exaly  

Nightlife and Urban Livability—The Case of Mashhad

2023
Kasra Talebian, Muge Riza
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Urban resilience and livability performance of European smart cities: A novel machine learning approach

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022
Nuri C. Onat, Murat Küçükvar, Galal M Abdella   +2 more
exaly  

Urban Design and Livability: The Regeneration of the Corniche in Doha

2017
The 1940s discovery of oil in Qatar caused a change from fishing and pearling based to a multifaceted economy. Through past few decades Qatar has experienced a rapid growth, which has radically influenced the country’s physical, economic, cultural and demographical status. In addition, Qatar has planned to invest large funds over the next five years on
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