Desirable streets: Using deviations in pedestrian trajectories to measure the value of the built environment

AS Miranda, Z Fan, F Duarte, C Ratti - Computers, Environment and Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
The experience of walking through a city is influenced by amenities and the visual qualities
of its built environment. This paper uses thousands of pedestrian trajectories obtained from …

Pedestrian route choice with respect to new lift-only entrances to underground space: Case study of a metro station area in hilly terrain in Hong Kong

HY Chan, LC Ip, U Mansoor, A Chen - Tunnelling and Underground Space …, 2022 - Elsevier
The intensive development of the metro system has enabled the building of underground
infrastructure that facilitates pedestrian movement from below ground to the surface, and …

Effect of urban green space in the hilly environment on physical activity and health outcomes: mediation analysis on multiple greenery measures

P Sun, Y Song, W Lu - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Green spaces reduce the risk of multiple adverse health outcomes by
encouraging physical activity. This study examined correlations between urban green space …

A spatial model of cognitive distance in cities

E Manley, G Filomena, P Mavros - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Spatial cognition is fundamental to the behaviour and activity of humans in urban space.
Humans perceive their environments with systematic biases and errors, and act upon these …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring multidimensional aspects of walkability: An innovative analysis approach in Besiktas, Istanbul

OC Yıldırım, A Sungur, DG Ozer - Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2023 - Elsevier
This study develops a holistic approach that underlines the effect of spatial, behavioral, and
perceptional dimensions on walkability at the neighborhood scale. The study recognizes …

Mapping and measuring spatial connectivity of the pathways to home-based businesses within informal urban contexts

HMH Thai, Q Stevens, J Rogers - Archnet-IJAR: International Journal …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper presents a mixed methodology to map and analyse the spatial
connectivity of the everyday pathways that link the doorway of an individual's home–work …

Identification of Local Accessibility Hubs and Leisure Amenities in Suburbanized Settlements: Case Study on the Suburban Zone of Prague

J Maňas - Sage Open, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper focuses on the topological definition of the system of public spaces in
suburbanized settlements. It identifies hubs with the best local accessibility within the system …

Exploring 3D spatial morphology using multilayered space syntax, network science and wi-fi log data

J Zhang, AM Senousi, P Zhao, S Law, X Liu - Urban Informatics, 2023 - Springer
Spatial morphology of 2D space has been well studied at the scales of building, community,
and city in space syntax literature. Space syntax decomposes continuous geographic space …

Comparability of urban street networks: consideration of the size effect in the evaluation of network characteristics and a proposal for determining an appropriate size …

HH Chen, U Dietrich - International Journal of Sustainable …, 2021 - repos.hcu-hamburg.de
For the analysis of urban networks indicators, like average node degree, connectivity and
betweenness centrality, are widely used. Their values are calculated for a catchment area of …

Adding visibility to visibility graphs: Weighting visibility analysis with attenuation coefficients

M Schwartz, M Vinnikov, J Federici - arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.04231, 2021 - arxiv.org
Evaluating the built environment based on visibility has been long used as a tool for human-
centric design. The origins of isovists and visibility graphs are within interior spaces, while …