Empowering Rural Communities to Measure Walkability: Co‐Development of a Digital Tool [PDF]
Health ExpectationsBackground Local neighbourhood environments are important for shaping walkability, but few instruments exist to assess walkability in rural areas. Furthermore, there are no existing tools that have been designed with and for communities to collect local ...
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Designing healthy communities: Testing the walkability model
Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2017 Research from multiple domains has provided insights into how neighborhood design can be improved to have a more favorable effect on physical activity, a concept known as walkability.
Adriana A Zuniga-Teran
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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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Sustainable walkability around green, blue, and spiritual spaces in a semi-urban district of coastal Karnataka, India [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWalkability plays a pivotal role in promoting sustainable urban development by influencing physical activity, social cohesion, and environmental well-being.
Mohammed Anas +2 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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Active living neighborhoods: is neighborhood walkability a key element for Belgian adolescents? [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2012 Background In adult research, neighborhood walkability has been acknowledged as an important construct among the built environmental correlates of physical activity.
De Meester Femke +5 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.
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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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