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Quality vs quantity. Is it possible to quantify the quality of public space?
Techne, 2020 Despite the common practice and the regulatory requirements related to the urban planning of our cities continues to define environmental quality through compliance with urban planning codes, the inadequacy of this parameter is increasingly evident.
Valentina Dessì, Lisa Astolfi
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Livable City One Step Towards Sustainable Development [PDF]
, 2017 Cities are the engines of economic growth. According to the United Nations, Today the global urban population is expected to reach 3 billion to 5 billion (61 percent) by 2030.The industrial revolution and the resulting economic-social changes led to the ...
Sasanpour, F. (Farzaneh)
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GeoHealth, Volume 10, Issue 4, April 2026.Abstract This study investigated the relationships between vacant land and key adverse health behaviors, including smoking, insufficient sleep, and no leisure‐time physical activity (No LPA), across census tracts in Chicago, Illinois. Using both global regression and geographically weighted regression (GWR), we evaluated whether neighborhood vacant ...
Liang Chen, Helen C. S. Meier
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A conceptual framework for development of sustainable development indicators [PDF]
There was a boom in the development of sustainable development indicators (SDIs) after notion of sustainability became popular through Bruntland Commission's report.
B. Sudhakara Reddy +1 more
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Functional road categorization: new concepts and challenges related to traffic safety, traffic managment and urban design: reflections based on practices in Belgium confronted with some Eastern European cases [PDF]
, 2008 The last decade functional road categorization has drawn new attention in several countries in Europe. In this paper some reflections are made on practice in the Flanders Region in Belgium, confronted with some cases in Latvia and Romania. New challenges
Lauwers, Dirk
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Earth and Space Science, Volume 13, Issue 4, April 2026.Abstract Urbanization profoundly influences urban vegetation dynamics. Variations in development stages lead to differing direct (vegetation loss) and indirect (vegetation growth) impacts across old urban areas, new urban areas, and suburban, with unclear spatiotemporal mechanisms.
Haoyun Shao +3 more
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Debunking Portland: The City That Doesn't Work [PDF]
, 2007 Though many people consider Portland, Oregon, a model of 21st-century urban planning, the region's integrated land-use and transportation plans have greatly reduced the area's livability.
Randal O'Toole
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Livable city: An approach to pedestrianization through tactical urbanism
Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2019 Many ancient cities around the world were known with their livability. However, these cities started to lose this feature, when vehicles became prior to pedestrians who lost their sense of place, as many negative impacts came along.
Hend H. Yassin
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Air Pollution (PM2.5) Negatively Affects Urban Livability in South Korea and China. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Jun S, Li M, Jung J.
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