commuting with a vehicle is found to be less desirable meaning walking becomes the first choice in later life. Therefore, this study contributes to the literature by providing the existing walkability situations and the accessible areas in Istanbul in terms of age-friendly perspective through the dev...
A census on car ownership from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that as of January 2021, there were 20.1 million registered cars in Australia, meaning that the average household had almost two cars. Giles-Corti said urgent policy reform was needed to help rebuild healthier and ...
The methodology framework consists of four stages: a) Evaluation of the pedestrian accessibility of the neighborhood giving emphasis on vulnerable users, b) Selection of a centrality meaning a place of dense human activity, c) collection of qualitative and quantitative data of pedestrian flow and d...
It can help restore the individual and social meaning of urban walking beyond its functional dimension. The walking time as a measurement unit, introduced by the recent discourses on the 15-minute city, is not abstract but is linked to the experience. This change, from abstraction to experience...
WalkScore.com gives Yonge and Eglinton a 98, labelling it as a “Walker’s Paradise,” meaning that daily errands do not require a car. This score is a tie for the highest with King West, the first neighbourhood we featured. The amenities of Yonge and Eglinton ...
In fact, what give meaning to a city are the social aspects raised in recent urban activities, in addition to the physical and visual body of it. Over the past decade the quality of the walking environment has become a significant factor in transportation planning and design in developed ...
design concerns. Building from Gehl's focus on the need to overcome formulistic and automobile-dominated urban planning would enable urban design's aesthetic and prescriptive based theories to have a new and deeper meaning: sustainable urban design is at its heart planning and designi...
[32]. In space syntax, accessibility is quantified by the Integration value, where a higher value indicates greater accessibility, meaning the street is more easily traversed by residents and experiences higher pedestrian traffic [33]. Space syntax theory also introduces three classic spatial ...
In space syntax, accessibility is quantified by the Integration value, where a higher value indicates greater accessibility, meaning the street is more easily traversed by residents and experiences higher pedestrian traffic [33]. Space syntax theory also introduces three classic spatial segmentation ...
It may be, however, that either of the variables will work as a de-stimulant, meaning that a negative relationship with the final value of the dependent variable will be recorded. That is, the higher the value of the measured variable, the lower the final value of the dependable. In ...