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Sustainable Urban Development and Livability
MET Management Review, 2022Sustainable cities are central to achieving all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). By 2050 cities will contain approximately 70% of the world's population and produce 85 per cent of global economic output. Policy and investment decisions made today will have a deep and long-lasting impact, based on the concentration of people and economic ...
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An evaluation approach for livable urban environments
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2013This study proposes a method for evaluating livable urban environments using the analytic hierarchy process, a survey of public opinions (n=1,075), and gray relational analysis with a pollutant standards index to estimate the weights of weather, air pollution, and environment aspects and each respective factor.
Chia-Ling, Chiang, Jeng-Jong, Liang
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Livability and Access to Urban Goods in Melbourne
, 2018 This chapter argues that livability indices, although often taking account of overall levels of social inequality, have usually ignored the distribution of the urban goods that underpin the concept of livability—public safety, health and education ...
MacDonald, HI, Heather MacDonald
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Homeownership Conceptual Framework for Urban Livability
Jurnal Antarabangsa Alam dan Tamadun Melayu, 2018 House is a basic need for individuals and families. Difficulty in owning a house has always been one of the major issues debated by the government, people and private sectors in Malaysia.
Kreatif 4
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Providing a Livable Housing Development Model for Increasing Urban Livability (Case Study of Tehran)
2019In the century 21 with the rapid rise of urbanization and the increase in urban populations its necessary to supplying and increasing good quality and conditions of the living in housing. One of the new ideas is urban planning for better housing and affordable transport access, with an emphasis on urban livability. Urban livability is a modern approach
Amin Safdari Molan +3 more
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2019
The rapidly changing climate is a crisis that, at its core, challenges many of the systems that support human habitation in cities, where the majority of people now live. The local effects of our destabilizing climate are most profound through extreme events, and heat waves are the most notorious for killing more people than all other natural disasters
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The rapidly changing climate is a crisis that, at its core, challenges many of the systems that support human habitation in cities, where the majority of people now live. The local effects of our destabilizing climate are most profound through extreme events, and heat waves are the most notorious for killing more people than all other natural disasters
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A Creative Approach to Creating a Livable Urban Environment
2021Every 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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Livability in New Urban Helsinki
2018Helsinki 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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Construction on Evaluation Index System of Urban Livability
Advanced Materials Research, 2014Starting 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, 2015Increasing 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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