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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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A Spatial Livability Index for dense urban centers
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2020This article introduces a Spatial Livability Index based on geographically weighted principal component analysis. We study the case of 203 subzones in Singapore which are dense geographic boundaries in terms of population and built-up area. These regions share spatial correlations of objective measures of livability such as open spaces or community ...
Francisco Benita +2 more
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Land Use Policy, 2019
Despite the popularity of the term urban livability, it is often used by different groups under different circumstances. A broader understanding of urban livability is that it concerns the quality of life in any human living environment. The World Health Organization, among many others, suggests a four-dimension assessment system based on the concepts ...
Bo Fu, Danlin Yu, Yaojun Zhang
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Despite the popularity of the term urban livability, it is often used by different groups under different circumstances. A broader understanding of urban livability is that it concerns the quality of life in any human living environment. The World Health Organization, among many others, suggests a four-dimension assessment system based on the concepts ...
Bo Fu, Danlin Yu, Yaojun Zhang
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Urban Environment and Infrastructure [PDF]
, 2004 This review of the active portfolio of World Bank projects aimed at improving urban environmental quality was carried out during 2002-03 in order to assess the level of commitment of the institution to urban sustainability. The review focuses on the contributions of key sectors to urban environmental improvements, in particular on those belonging to ...
Anthony G. Bigio, Bharat Dahiya
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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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Antonella Trombadore +3 more
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Measuring Urban Design: Metrics for Livable Places
Journal of Urban Design, 2015The aim of Reid Ewing and Otto Clemente's book Measuring Urban Design: Metrics for Livable Places is to enable a more quantifiable understanding of what makes certain streets more inviting than oth...
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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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Teaching urban facility management, global citizenship and livability
Facilities, 2020Purpose This paper aims to explain the influence of facility design on urban quality of life from an educational perspective. The outcome of this paper is to determine the influence of facility management (FM) on the quality of life of citizens in the city of The Hague by actively using a facility design to positively influence the livability ...
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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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Applying Urban Livability indicators in gated communities
Engineering Research Journal, 2022Radwa Hussein Hanafy Azam +1 more
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