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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"urban amenities"”.
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Beyond city size : characterizing and predicting the location of urban amenities
… scale, leaving open the question of how urban characteristics are distributed within a city. Here we study the spatial organization of one important urban characteristic: its amenities, such as restaurants, cafes, and libraries. We use a dataset summarizing the position of more than 1.2 …
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Quality of Urban Life and Intensification: Understanding Housing Choices, Trade-Offs, and the Role of Urban Amenities
… Australia, and the Pacific Northwest have urban growth management policies and strategies in place to promote intensification as a way to avoid sprawl while continuing to absorb population growth. Enhancing the quality of urban life of residents has also become a fundamental component in …
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The Value of Urban Amenities: Analyzing the Changing Dynamics of Consumer Goods, Mobility, and Green Spaces in Cities
Urban amenities, ranging from diverse consumer goods and services to pleasant environmental settings, reliable public services, and convenient mobility options, make cities appealing places to live. The evolution of these amenities has been a dynamic process influenced by technological …
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Leveraging Geospatial Data to Understand Social Mixing in Cities
… the impact of dense social interactions in urban areas is crucial for designing inclusive cities, as they contribute to both the benefits and challenges of urban living. Various urban planning paradigms and design approaches, such as the 15 minute city, aim to foster social connections and …
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Hong Kong Time: Rethinking sustainable mobility and the 15-minute city in the context of equity
… Mobility Score that quantifies access to urban amenities via sustainable transport modes, like walking and public transit. It then analyzes the relationship between this scoring system and neighborhood income levels. The results show that walkability is linked to spatial segregation, but …
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The transportation experience of the women of Pudahuel, Santiago de Chile
… research has found that the Chilean housing and urban development process has generated social and environmental conditions that provide for unequal access to urban amenities for different groups of its population. This thesis describes the limitations to current research, highlighting the need …
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Restoring the Lost Rivers of Washington: Can a city's hydrologic past inform its future?
… older U.S. cities, suffers the woes of rapid urbanization and aging infrastructure. The city's combined sewer and stormwater system dumps millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers over 70 times annually during significant rain events. While many groups, both …
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Local public space, global spectacle : a case study on South Africa's first shipping container shopping center
… of spatial justice, and world class African urbanism provoke us to think deeply about if, when, and how divergent market and state priorities can be aligned and exploited for local social and economic impact. The research raises critical questions about how to develop and promote urban …
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Redesigning rural life : relocation and In Situ urbanization in a Shandong village by Saul Kriger Wilson.
… limit the loss of arable land, and coordinate urbanization have converged in land readjustment schemes to rebuild some villages as more densely populated "rural communities." I present a case study on a financially troubled, partially complete village reconstruction project in Shandong. …
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Equilibriums of Paradox: Pittsburgh's Urban Renaissance through Public Transport
… sports teams, the city is brimming with urban amenities. In many ways, Pittsburgh has been seen as the example that other Rust Belt cities should follow if they too are to transition into the post-industrial age. However, during the challenging economic times over the past forty years, …
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A better way to live : community and collaboration
… focused, housing scheme near a CBD and natural urban context. This brings forth an opportunity to explore ways in which dwellers can live efficiently together while enhancing the liveability for the occupants through its accessibility to neighbouring urban amenities. The site of the design …
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Essays on Machine Learning in Applied Microeconomics
… willingness-to-pay for environmental and urban amenities. I first estimate the effects of air pollution on house prices in Pennsylvania. By incorporating a rich home transaction dataset collected from Zillow, I reduce bias by more than half. Using a similar dataset, I then estimate how …
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A computational approach to urban economics
… more than half of the world population today and urbanization is one of this century's biggest drivers of global economic growth. The dynamics of the urban environment is thus an important question to investigate. In this thesis, techniques from statistical modeling, machine learning, data mining …
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Matching transit and open public spaces : open space oriented transit for successful transit oriented development in Guadalajara
The way we perceive the urban environment affects the choices we make and therefore our behavior. This fact has an important effect when we navigate a city. How urban spaces are laid out will influence our decisions and have repercussions in our travel choices. There is therefore a connection …
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What is a bungalow?: redefinition and revival of an American house type
… ideals, and as electric streetcars opened the urban periphery to development, "streetcar suburbs" full of bungalows proliferated. Particularly in the younger, developing cities of the early 20th century, residential areas are dominated by the American bungalow. In these "streetcar suburbs" …
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In pursuit of adulthood : the urban choices and trade-offs of young mothers in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
… can help demystify the calculations behind their urban choices. Recognizing the valid and poorly understood reasoning of this group can help planners rethink the urban amenities and services needed to support young people as they affirm their emerging adulthood identities in the modern urban …
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The Convergence- The Intersection of Two Extreme Typologies in Cities
… American cities. However, with the rise of suburbanization, many of these downtown areas began to experience economic decline and population loss. Factors that contributed to this decline included the decentralization of jobs and economic activity to suburban areas, as well as the increasing …
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Revitalization of the Bazaar neighborhood in Tehran
… social value of the historic Bazaar. The ruined urban condition makes it impossible for contemporary visitors to have a pleasurable experience while visiting the Bazaar, although that was historically their experience. As Tehran began to grow, much of the trade and finance in the city has moved …
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A school council's influence on community involvement in a Saskatchewan community
… community involvement. Convenient access to urban amenities, the influx of new community members, and a generational shift of values and lifestyles appeared to deter the creation and utilization of personal and professional stocks of social capital within the community. In contrast, the …
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WASHHOUSE : A shared amenity for dense urban environments.
A shift in urban living density triggers a multitude of behavioral changes. The consequences of heightened density are diverse, encompassing shifts in property ownership, alterations to daily routines, changes in workplace locations, and reassessments of the significance of communal engagement and …