Abstract Design and construction professionals are entrusted to design built environments
that can assure public safety. Crime statistics is one indicator that reflects the correlation …

Neighborhood decline is a critical issue in shrinking cities. Components of sustainable
urbanism such as mixed land uses have risen as possible urban planning-based …

Planning interventions have been applied to improve the well‐being, hereafter happiness, of
residents. The happiness in shrinking cities, in particular, becomes more critical since urban …

Urban deprivation is an epistemic tool to study the geographic concentration of deprivation
in different neighborhoods of a city. Studies have long associated with neighborhood …

This research examined social media's role in understanding perceptions about the spaces
in which individuals interact, what planners can learn from social media data, and how to …

Given the substantial rise in the urban population, it is imperative to evaluate the quality of
life (QoL) in residential communities. New Urbanism (NU) and Leadership in Energy and …

Conventional zoning codes, particularly in the US, often prohibit the building of compact,
diverse, walkable urban places, and thus present a significant impediment to sustainable …

Studies on happiness determinants have mainly focused on individual characteristics, but
recently, the focus was extended to public services. Regarding the role of transportation …

The neighborhood effect on keeping non-commuting trips inside neighborhoods has not yet
been investigated in developing countries. The modeling of non-commuting trips inside …

As the popularity of New Urbanism has grown, local governments have attempted to
translate New Urbanist planning components into planning policy forms. Through …