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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"walkability"”.
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The global walkability index
… I was retained by the World Bank to devise a walkability index, which would rank cities across the world based on the safety, security, and convenience of their pedestrian environments. To accomplish this task, I first generated a list of Index variables by studying existing tools for …
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Walkability: Suburban plaza Revitalization- A case study of Improving Walkability along Duke Street
… growing recognition regarding the importance of walkability in urban design. Walking, as the most common form of physical activity, has gained recognition for its numerous benefits. While walkability has been extensively studied by urban designers, there is a gap in understanding how to promote …
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Amenities, Walkability, and Neighborhood Stability: A Mixed Methods Analysis
The decline of the United States housing market in late 2006 produced a momentous shift in land values and home prices across the country. Evidence of this collapse was widespread by 2008, which helped spark a global recession that nearly brought the financial world to a standstill. Much of the …
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Walkability Assessment For Schoolgoing Children Case Study: Otjiwarongo Town - Namibia
This study focuses on assessing the walkability of scholars in the Otjiwarongo Town municipal area in Namibia. The research looks at the overall infrastructure and the conflict between pedestrians and motorists. This study is done to find out the serviceability of walkable paths and their existence …
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A GIS-based walkability index for the City of Cape Town
… between urban form and human health created walkability indices measuring urban environmental features contributing to the walkability of an area. However, walkability has only recently become the subject of research within urban planning. Within a South African context limited research is …
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Assessing School Neighborhood Walkability: A Targeted Approach to Safe Routes to School Programming
… impacting HISD-E middle school neighborhoods’ walkability. The "Shelling Model" is a first step in creating a walkability index for which pedestrian orientation levels can be identified and schools targeted. This model facilitates the identification of variables, providing insight into …
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"Perceived neighborhood walkability" and physical activity in four urban settings in South Africa
… associations between the perceived neighbourhood walkability and physical activity, particularly, by socio-economic status (SES) remain scarce. This study explores these associations by validating the Neighbourhood Environmental Walkability Scale (NEWS-Africa) in an urban setting of South Africa …
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Merging walkability into tax increment financing: Champaign-IL downtown fringe TIF district case demonstration
… mind, urban planning practitioners can push for walkability analyses in TIF districts, accounting for the walkability impact associated with the many developments that happen inside its boundaries. This knowledge can support scenario planning, provide information to negotiate with developers and …
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Enhancing the pedestrian experience in Singapore : a closer look at MRT transfers and CBD walkability
… efficiently, and finer aspects with regards to walkability had not received enough attention. In the area of work-related walking, two aspects have been identified for possible enhancement. First, with Singapore aggressively expanding her Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system, more MRT transfers will …
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Walkability through Challenging terrain: Connectivity between Frederick Douglass National Historic Site and Anacostia Community Museum
This thesis is an investigation of how to achieve walkability over steep urban topography greater than Americans with Disabilities Act accessible 8.33% standard. I studied how landscape architects and architects have overcome challenging topography in a variety of international cities and how to …
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A study of walking and walkability through a spatial justice/spatial practice framework, in Maylands, Western Australia
… and experiences in theory and in policy on walkability (Middleton, 2011, 2016). Notable theorists have demonstrated the benefits of participatory walking practices as a conversive and convivial methodology for performance research (Myers, 2009), for intergenerational urban pedagogy (L. G. …
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Mobile phone technology as an aid to contemporary transport questions in walkability, in the context of developing countries
… tool to collect this data and audit the state of walkability in cities. They eliminate the inaccuracies and inefficiencies of human memories because smartphone sensors such as GPS provides information with accuracies within 5m, providing superior accuracy and precision compared to other …
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Neighbourhood walkability associated with initiation of, and adherence to, a pedometer-based physical activity intervention among inactive Canadian adults
… neighbourhood built environment (i.e., walkability estimated via Walk Score®) and the self-reported (perceived) neighbourhood built environment on adoption of, adherence to the UWALK intervention, and levels of pedometer-measured physical activity. A quasi-experiment was undertaken in …
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Designing a Walkable Suburban Landscape: New Urbanism and Light Rail as Methodologies
… through principles of New Urbanism, walkability, and mass transportation via light rail, there is an opportunity to transform the auto dominated suburban landscape into one that promotes walkability. Located in the suburbs of Alexandria, Virginia, an atypical intersection is analyzed …
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Relationships between Urban Environments and Crdiovascular Disease Risk
… associations between neighbourhood walkability and predicted CVD risk. High neighbourhood walkability was associated with a lower predicted 10-year risk of CVD but a higher odds of smoking. The second cross-sectional study focused on interactions between neighbourhood walkability and …
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Comparing Spatial Measures of the Built Environment for Health Research
… walking behavior in Marion County, Indiana. Walkability index and vegetation greenness variables were evaluated within 400-meter, 1-kilometer, and 2-kilometer Euclidian and network buffers, census block groups and tracts, and 805- X 805-meter grid cells. Results of analyses using each of …
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The Effect of Environmental Factors and Socioeconomic Status on Body Mass Index and Physical Activity in a Sample of Adolescents from Austin Texas
… was to investigate the associations among the walkability characteristics of neighborhoods, as measured using the Neighborhood Environmental Walkability Scale (NEWS) survey, with physical activity and body mass index (BMI) in a sample of adolescents from Lyndon Baines Johnson High School of …
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The Role of Social Support, Neighborhood Walkability, and Physical Activity, On Blood Pressure In African American Adults In the Path Trial: A Mediation Proposal
… factors (social support, neighborhood walkability) have been shown to predict physical activity in longitudinal studies. Thus, social and physical environmental supports may positively influence physical activity, which may in turn reduce blood pressure as part of a causal pathway or …
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