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Development of a novel walkability index for London, United Kingdom: cross-sectional application to the Whitehall II Study [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Physical activity is essential for health; walking is the easiest way to incorporate activity into everyday life. Previous studies report positive associations between neighbourhood walkability and walking but most focused on cities in North ...
Jemima C. Stockton +5 more
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Gendered walkability: Building a daytime walkability index for women
Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2019 Urban walkability is influenced both by built environment features and by pedestrian demographics. Research has shown that factors influencing women’s walking differ from those affecting men’s.
Yael Golan +3 more
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Associations of neighbourhood walkability with patterns of device-measured stepping, standing and sitting [PDF]
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical ActivityBackground Neighbourhood walkability is known to be positively associated with self-reported and device-based measures of overall physical activity. However, relations of walkability with specific active and sedentary behaviour patterns are not well ...
Christian J. Brakenridge +6 more
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GENERATIVE DESIGN FOR WALKABLE CITIES: A CASE STUDY OF SOFIA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022 The walkable city concept is an extent to which the built environment motivates people to walk by providing comforting pedestrian ways, linking people to various amenities in a fair amount of time and effort.
D. Kumalasari +4 more
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Public perceptions of barriers to walk in urban areas of Lahore, Pakistan
TeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2023 Development strategies in urban areas of the less developed world are predominantly focused on motorized oriented planning which influenced the mobility practices of individuals.
Muhammad Ahsan +2 more
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Evaluation Study Of Walkability Index In Central Business District (CBD) Area, Pekanbaru City
JGEET: Journal of Geoscience, Engineering, Environment and Technology, 2020 Walkable cities emphasize cities with high walkability values, where walkability can be defined as the degree to which the environment can be pedestrian friendly.
Muhammad Sofwan, Mira Hafizhah Tanjung
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Scientific Reports, 2013 AbstractWalkable dual emissions, in which the emission bands of the walker reversibly cross or leave those of the stationary ones depending on temperature and concentration, have been demonstrated in cyclic dimeric lanthanide complexes [Ln(hfac)3(PAnPO2)]2 (Ln = EuIII, TbIII; hfac− = hexafluoroacetylacetonate; PAnPO2 = 9,10-bis(diphenylphosphino ...
Xu, Hai-Bing +4 more
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 Walking is the most common, environment-friendly, and inexpensive type of physical activity. To perform in-depth walkability analysis, one option is to objectively evaluate different aspects of built environment related to walkability.
Chengbin Deng +7 more
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Walkability in residential neighbourhoods: Themes and principles revisited
Urbani Izziv, 2021 The article sets to examine broader theoretical scope of walkability, and research efforts dealing with measurement of walkable environments, with a specific aim to distil and translate walkability as a measure to walkability as a design principles ...
Kaja Žnidaršič, Matevž Juvančič
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Factors influencing subjective walkability: Results from built environment audit data
Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2022 Subjective walkability is a measure of the perceived friendliness of walking in an area. Though subjective walkability is less commonly assessed than objective measurements, the latter often fail to reflect the experience of walking.
Lancelot Rodrigue +6 more
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