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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PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT In Rotterdam, the Netherlands, grassroots organizers with a forced migration background provide support to recent refugees. These organizers try to sustain the informal character of the work they do, while, at the same time, they seek to institutionalize their organization by entering into collaborative government arrangements that are ...
Lieke van der Veer
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Improving Livability Using Green and Active Modes: A Traffic Stress Level Analysis of Transit, Bicycle, and Pedestrian Access and Mobility [PDF]
, 2017 Understanding the relative attractiveness of alternatives to driving is vitally important toward lowering driving rates and, by extension, vehicle miles traveled (VMT), traffic congestion, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, etc.
Appleyard, Bruce +2 more
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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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Surface Runoff Discrepancy in Urban‐PLUMBER Land Surface Models
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 8, 28 April 2026.Abstract Enhanced surface runoff in urban environments reduces water availability and limits the evaporative cooling potential. We evaluate surface runoff in 18 urban land surface models (ULSM) in Urban‐PLUMBER for 6,570 rainfall events across 21 urban sites.
H. J. Jongen +14 more
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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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Reducing Livability: How Sustainability Planning Threatens the American Dream [PDF]
, 2013 This report posits that sustainability plans are infringing on people's rights and preventing them from securing the type of housing they ...
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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Full Potential of Future Robotaxis Achievable with Trip-Based Subsidies and Fees Applied to the For-Hire Vehicles of Today [PDF]
, 2019 As described by Grush and Niles in their textbook, The End of Driving: Transportation Systems and Public Policy Planning for Autonomous Vehicles, there are two distinct market states for the future of automobility as vehicles become increasingly ...
Niles, John
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Public Participation GIS for sustainable urban mobility planning: methods, applications and challenges [PDF]
, 2016 Sustainable mobility planning is a new approach to planning, and as such it requires new methods of public participation, data collection and data aggregation.
Brudka, Cezary +8 more
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