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Livability in New Urban Helsinki

2018
Helsinki has a reputation of being a livable city. It ranks relatively high, for instance, in The Economist’s and Monocle’s livability and quality of life indices. Helsinki is growing rather rapidly, and large new urban areas are being planned and built. Recent discussion in the city has emphasized more “urban” approach to planning.
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A Creative Approach to Creating a Livable Urban Environment

2021
Every year, the participation of citizens in the creation of urban projects is becoming more and more. It is especially popular to involve citizens in creative projects to create popular public spaces on the site of industrial zones, abandoned buildings, and cultural heritage sites.
Daria Shalina   +2 more
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Construction on Evaluation Index System of Urban Livability

Advanced Materials Research, 2014
Starting from the study of achievements at home and abroad, the writer discusses the connotation of the urban livability. On basis of comparative analysis about every method of evaluation livable city, the principles about evaluation index system of urban livability are setup. The paper builds urban livability evaluation index system, whose coverage is
Fu Xiang Hu, Xi Jun Hu
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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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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   +3 more
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Livability of Urban Spaces

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Mohamed Sherif   +2 more
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Livability and sustainability in large urban regions [PDF]

open access: possible, 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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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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