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Measuring Urban Design

Author : Reid Ewing
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610911931
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Measuring Urban Design written by Reid Ewing and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes strolling down a particular street enjoyable? The authors of Measuring Urban Design argue it's not an idle question. Inviting streets are the centerpiece of thriving, sustainable communities, but it can be difficult to pinpoint the precise design elements that make an area appealing. This accessible guide removes the mystery, providing clear methods to measure urban design. In recent years, many "walking audit instruments" have been developed to measure qualities like building height, block length, and sidewalk width. But while easily quantifiable, these physical features do not fully capture the experience of walking down a street. In contrast, this book addresses broad perceptions of street environments. It provides operational definitions and measurement protocols of five intangible qualities of urban design, specifically imageability, visual enclosure, human scale, transparency, and complexity. The result is a reliable field survey instrument grounded in constructs from architecture, urban design, and planning. Readers will also find a case study applying the instrument to 588 streets in New York City, which shows that it can be used effectively to measure the built environment's impact on social, psychological, and physical well-being. Finally, readers will find illustrated, step-by-step instructions to use the instrument and a scoring sheet for easy calculation of urban design quality scores. For the first time, researchers, designers, planners, and lay people have an empirically tested tool to measure those elusive qualities that make us want to take a stroll. Urban policymakers and planners as well as students in urban policy, design, and environmental health will find the tools and methods in Measuring Urban Design especially useful.

Pedestrian Activity Study

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Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Pedestrian Activity Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides an examination of pedestrian behaviourial patterns and looks at the way building design, street furniture and activities such as sidewalk sales affect pedestrian flow and behaviour. Through this examination, it identifies factors which contribute to the success of a pedestrian area. This information provides the basis for an evaluation of existing policies in the Municipal development plan related to the design of buildings and sidewalks which relate to pedestrian safety and comfort. It also raises several issues, which could further enhance the downtown for pedestrians and encourage more people to walk through the downtown.

A Study of Pedestrian Activity in a Suburban Setting

Author : Crystal Gordon Gilchrist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book A Study of Pedestrian Activity in a Suburban Setting written by Crystal Gordon Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pedestrian Activity Study

Author : Halifax (England). County Borough. Development and Planning Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Pedestrian Activity Study written by Halifax (England). County Borough. Development and Planning Department and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Guide for the Planning, Design, and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities

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Publisher : AASHTO
ISBN 13 : 1560512717
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Guide for the Planning, Design, and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities written by and published by AASHTO. This book was released on 2004 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making Healthy Places

Author : Andrew L. Dannenberg
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610910362
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Making Healthy Places written by Andrew L. Dannenberg and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments. This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and suburbs, and the health of residents, especially humans. Since then, numerous studies have extended and refined the book's research and reporting. Making Healthy Places offers a fresh and comprehensive look at this vital subject today. There is no other book with the depth, breadth, vision, and accessibility that this book offers. In addition to being of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students in public health and urban planning, it will be essential reading for public health officials, planners, architects, landscape architects, environmentalists, and all those who care about the design of their communities. Like a well-trained doctor, Making Healthy Places presents a diagnosis of--and offers treatment for--problems related to the built environment. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, with contributions from experts in a range of fields, it imparts a wealth of practical information, with an emphasis on demonstrated and promising solutions to commonly occurring problems.

Pedestrian Behavior

Author : Harry Timmermans
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848557507
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Pedestrian Behavior written by Harry Timmermans and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of pedestrian behaviour have gained attention in a variety of disciplines. Different technologies have been used to collect data about pedestrian movement patterns. This book aims to document these developments in research and modelling approaches. It includes modelling approaches such as cellular automata models and fluid dynamics.

Relationship Between Physical Environment and Pedestrian Activities

Author : Elahe Anjomshoaa
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783659303609
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Relationship Between Physical Environment and Pedestrian Activities written by Elahe Anjomshoaa and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedestrian Activity is popularly associated with health issues. However, pedestrian activity has more contributions. Especially in business or commercial districts, a lot of pedestrian activity takes place. Not all of them are related with health issues. Researchers have found that pedestrian activity not only creates a buzzing vibrancy in the commercial districts, but also can significantly contribute to the local security, which is also a very important issue. Therefore, there have been searches for variables which can generate and sustain such pedestrian activity. Studies show that though there are some universal variables, some of them are specific to local context. This study searched for such variables in physical environment, which can create and sustain such vibrancy in the context of urban commercial centers in Malaysia. With a method of observing pedestrian activity, and hypothesizing the intensity of people as the parameter of such vibrancy, this study adopted several key statistical methods to come up with some interesting findings. It showed that certain components of mixed land use patterns and streetscapes are significant to generate and sustain pedestrian vibrancy.

To and Fro

Author : Anthony Phong Vanky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book To and Fro written by Anthony Phong Vanky and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding how environmental attributes can influence the behavior of pedestrians is of concern for public health officials, transportation engineers, and urban planners. To what degree, if any, do these various environmental characteristics influence how much and for how long people walk? To answer these questions, this thesis analyzes large-scale spatiotemporal pedestrian activity records collected from the users of a mobile phone application in Greater Boston, Massachusetts and the San Francisco Bay Area, California. The dataset contains the locative traces of recreational and utilitarian pedestrian walking activities which include the GPS and temporal records of individuals. In sum, this dissertation considered over 2.2 million trips from 135,000 people. This thesis addresses the topic in three parts. The first study examines the impacts of climate and environment on active transportation trips, and finds varying effects of different types of weather. However, these associated effects are influenced by a trip's purpose, as well as by season and location. The second study analyzes the impact of built environment characteristics on walking activities at the urban scale. These characteristics are generally defined as components of the density, diversity, and design of urban spaces. The study finds that activity characteristics are moderated by the features of location, and that infrastructure for walking, transportation access, and destinations have a positive influence on walking volume. Walking durations are largely invariant to these factors. The third study explores the effects of urban attributes on the aggregated route choices of individuals through the use of revealed preferences. The study's findings suggest that pedestrians are sensitive to the presence of retail destinations and transit availability in their choice of path. Despite this, architectural and street-level design features have mixed effects. These analyses contribute a new approach to understanding the interrelationships between the built environment and pedestrian activity, and how those effects contribute to the walkability of communities. This thesis also tests the usefulness of passive, pervasive mobile devices in evaluating urban space, and considers their potential to aid in the development of human-centered urban design-from an analysis of the quantified self toward the understanding of the quantified community.

Pedestrian Areas in Los Angeles

Author : Manuel Antonio Soto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Pedestrian Areas in Los Angeles written by Manuel Antonio Soto and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the spatial, social, and economic aspects of pedestrianism in three active pedestrian areas of Los Angeles to identify the causes of their activity, and to shed light on how these aspects work together to achieve pedestrian vibrancy. Three old commercial strips were selected to reflect a wide range of demographic, socioeconomic, and urban space characteristics; these three cases were analyzed to determine qualitative and quantitative factors that influence pedestrian flow and activity, such as business type and quantity, physical characteristics of streets, blocks and sidewalks, and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. These case studies show that there are factors that have a direct and positive influence on pedestrian traffic and activity along sidewalks (such as the gross leasable area and population density in the neighborhood area), while other factors have a direct and negative influence on pedestrian traffic (for example, wide store fronts, and a high number of convenient shopping and personal and professional services). At the same time, other features considered important to walking in the literature, such as ample parking, greenery, landscaping, and street furniture were found to have an indirect or ambiguous influence on pedestrian traffic. Perhaps more importantly, I found through observations across the study cases, that variables interact in different ways to produce at least three design outcomes that attract pedestrians: (1) a business mix that respond to people's tastes and preference in the neighborhood trade area, (2) slower vehicle traffic speeds and frequent opportunities for crossing the street, and (3) physical and psychological comfort conditions along sidewalks that mostly result from providing adequate space for walking, buffering from traffic, and consistency and continuity along shopping strips.

A Study of Pedestrian Safety Behavior Using Activity Sampling

Author : P. H. Fleig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book A Study of Pedestrian Safety Behavior Using Activity Sampling written by P. H. Fleig and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Managing Pedestrian Safety II

Author : Anne Vernez Moudon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Managing Pedestrian Safety II written by Anne Vernez Moudon and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pedestrian Activity Model for Prioritizing Investment

Author : Bishoi Shinoda
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Pedestrian Activity Model for Prioritizing Investment written by Bishoi Shinoda and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research emphasizes the needed integration for the empirical field of pedestrian modeling and the practical field of public works services. This is illustrated by focusing on the winter sidewalk maintenance delivery standards in Canadian municipalities, which often suffers from a mismatch with the spatial distribution of pedestrian activity. As a response, the first objective of this research is to predict the spatial distribution of pedestrian activity. This is done by reviewing five approaches to pedestrian modeling and demonstrating an understanding of the built environment and non-built environment variables that influence pedestrian demand. Based on common shortcomings to each approach, an analytical approach is proposed and used to construct a Pedestrian Activity Model (P.A.M.) predicting daily walking trip count per neighbourhood, with the City of Waterloo as the case study area. Building on this, an analysis of the highest classes of the constructed P.A.M. is utilized to suggest a Pedestrian Priority Zone. This addresses the second research objective, which is to identify high foot traffic areas to construct a priority zone for delivering enhanced and efficient winter sidewalk maintenance. Between the two tested regression types, the Spatial Error Regression (SER) is a better fit in capturing daily walking trips. Of the seven explanatory variables considered, only Transit Activity, Metric Reach (sidewalk connectivity), and Elementary and Secondary School Student Enrollment variables are significant under the SER model. As a result, the Pedestrian Activity Model is founded on the SER model and the 3 significant variables. The highest pedestrian activity class is found along University Avenue between University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, while the second highest is found around the Uptown. A single Pedestrian Priority Zone is suggested based on amalgamating the three highest P.A.M. classes. While the results are context-specific, the methodology is transferable. The process of constructing the predictive model can be used to validate other existing pedestrian models. Also, constructing a Pedestrian Activity Model could be an essential piece to decision making not just for enhancing public works services, but also for recommending new infrastructure connections, prioritizing streetscape enhancement projects, encouraging commercial and retail development, and boosting Real Estate market.

People as Pedestrians

Author : Jean Elizabeth Todd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People as Pedestrians written by Jean Elizabeth Todd and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modeling Pedestrian Activity at Singalized Intersections

Author : Sudha Repaka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Modeling Pedestrian Activity at Singalized Intersections written by Sudha Repaka and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing congestion and travel delays on urban roads has lead practitioners to look at means to encourage and make alternate modes of transportation more attractive. Allocation of resources to build facilities amicable to pedestrians is governed by pedestrian activity at the location of interest. Collecting real world data such as pedestrian counts (indicating pedestrian activity) at each point of interest is an expensive and time consuming process. On the other hand, unlike trip generation models to estimate vehicle trips, literature documents limited research to model and measure activity pertaining to pedestrian counts. This thesis presents a development and an evaluation of models to measure pedestrian activity at both high and low pedestrian activity locations at different time periods. Data collected at 176 signalized intersections in the City of Charlotte, located in the State of North Carolina, are used to develop models to measure pedestrian activity by time of the day. Pedestrian counts collected at the 176 intersections are used as a dependent variable. Factors such as demographic characteristics (population, household units), socio-economic characteristics (income level, employment), land-use characteristics (residential, commercial, industrial, etc.), network characteristics (number of approaches, number of lanes, speed limits, traffic volume, presence of medians), and the number of transit stops are extracted and estimated using features available in a commercial Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software program. These factors are used as independent variables. Stepwise regression analysis through backward elimination of independent variables is used to develop the models. The developed models could be used by practitioners to measure pedestrian activity at a location if data are available. The measured pedestrian activity could be used in transportation planning, safety, and operational analyses.

Pedestrian/transit Mall Study

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Pedestrian/transit Mall Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pedestrian Transportation Project Prioritization Incorporating App-collected Sidewalk Data

Author : Alexandra Frackelton
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Pedestrian Transportation Project Prioritization Incorporating App-collected Sidewalk Data written by Alexandra Frackelton and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planners and decision-makers recognize that non-motorized transportation provides environmental, economic, and public health benefits. Recent technology advances, such as the widespread use of mobile devices and geographic information systems, enable the collection of disaggregate built environment and travel behavior data. To integrate pedestrian planning into transport operations at local and regional scales, it is necessary to develop systems to rank and prioritize zones and corridors for pedestrian infrastructure investment. Best practices for pedestrian planning suggest that jurisdictions prioritize pedestrian projects based on a variety of concerns, such as high pedestrian activity, pedestrian safety, accessibility to transit and mobility for persons with disabilities, children and older adults. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology developed and piloted an automated system to assess the quality of sidewalks, utilizing an AndroidTM App that collects GPS-enabled video, accelerometer, and gyroscope data. Researchers collected pilot sidewalk data within the City of Atlanta to evaluate the accessibility and walkability of pedestrian facilities. This research proposes a weighted ranking system to prioritize pedestrian projects using App-collected pedestrian facility data collected in the field using a mobile Android application, pedestrian safety indicators, pedestrian activity data and demographic data. The ranking system uses a set of block-level pedestrian potential and deficiency indicators to prioritize planning investments within a subarea of Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia, combining available data sources with app-collected sidewalk width data. The results of these rank-order prioritization analyses indicate that blocks near rail stations and Georgia Institute of Technology/Technology Square should be prioritized for pedestrian investments. However, further refinements are needed to extend the application of this methodology to larger geographic scales. Additionally, this research did not consider the cost constraints of pedestrian project alternatives within the study area. Future availability of comprehensive pedestrian activity and pedestrian network data will enable planners and engineers to prioritize corridors and intersections for pedestrian project implementation.