Benchmarking City Layouts—A Methodological Approach and an Accessibility Comparison between a Real City and the Garden City

Monteiro, João; Sousa, Nuno; Natividade-Jesus, Eduardo; Coutinho-Rodrigues, João

doi:10.3390/su14095029

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“…Petras and Kveton [25] found that the impact of new road infrastructure on accessibility in the Czech Republic is strong in a few areas, whereas the impact of new road infrastructure on traffic load is relatively evenly distributed spatially. In addition, certain scholars have conducted accessibility analyses of population, hydrology, urban parks, and green spaces in cities and determined the optimal travel time for urban residents and the spatial distribution characteristics of urban green and blue spaces [26,27]. Therefore, accessibility analysis can be used to objectively evaluate the fairness and convenience of the spatial distribution of urban parks, green spaces, transportation, and residential buildings.…”

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Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Public Fitness Venues: An Urban Accessibility Perspective

Jiang

Liu

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In the context of healthy China, the study of the spatial distribution characteristics of urban sports venues is not only beneficial to planning the construction of sports venues in cities, but also to the health protection of urban residents. Therefore, to promote a fair and scientific approach to constructing public fitness sites in the city and meet the needs of urban residents’ fitness activities, this study targeted public fitness sites larger than 10 m2 in the main urban area of Jinan City to study spatial distribution characteristics and accessibility. We combine the traffic road network and other data and use spatial and buffer zone analyses to assess the sites from the perspective of different travel modes of urban residents. The results show that the public fitness venues in the main urban area are mainly concentrated centrally; there is no significant pattern between the construction of venue area and population. For the time range of 0–15 min, Lixia District has the highest ratio of public fitness venue service area for walking, cycling, and car travel, with 22.54%, 62.25%, and 100%, respectively, and Changqing District has the lowest. In terms of travel mode, the highest service area ratio is 62.7% for car travel, followed by 28.7% for cycling, and 7.7% for walking. It is concluded that the construction of public fitness venues in Jinan has an unbalanced layout, does not fully consider the population factor, and different modes of travel have a significant impact on accessibility. It is therefore suggested that the government should increase public fitness venue construction in the areas surrounding the main city; moreover, future planning of urban public fitness venues should fully consider the distribution characteristics of population quantity and age in each area. Finally, the main travel mode characteristics of urban residents should also be considered to promote the future scientific development of urban public fitness venue construction.

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Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Public Fitness Venues: An Urban Accessibility Perspective

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“…Evaluation and analysis of the morphology of historical urban tissue is a complex matter, since there are numerous elements and factors that impact the diagnosis of urban structure quality [34][35][36][37][38][39][40]. Apart from historical research on transformations and accumulations within the analysed area, and qualitative research on urban systems, it seems advisable to perform an evaluation of land systems [41][42][43].…”

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Identification of land system transformations in the Rzeszów city square

2023

Archives of Civil Engineering

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The paper presents the results of a comparative study of the land system of the city square and adjacent buildings for Rzeszów in Poland. The study made use of a cadastral map at a scale of 1:2880 and a modern land and building record map. For the purpose of adjusting reference systems, the cadastral map recorded in the form of a digital raster image, in accordance with applicable provisions of polish law (Journal of Laws No. 263 §49), was subjected to a two-stage calibration. The first stage consisted in carrying out initial calibration with the employment of first-degree affine transformation. In the second stage, final calibration was performed using mathematical transformation that considered the distortions detected in the previous stage. The results showed shifts, consolidations, and divisions of land parcels with regard to the present state, and changes to property structure. The proposed method may prove useful for further research on historical urban system morphology, and on restoration and renewal of the urban tissue.

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“…As one moves away from the center, urban density decreases, and scores improved. However, the outskirts have poor accessibility, few facilities, and a limited supply of public transportation [85]. Despite not being a big metropole and due to its history and urban development, Coimbra comprises several urban forms and designs that scored differently in terms of the perceived pleasantness and is a typical global north city.…”

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Do We Live Where It Is Pleasant? Correlates of Perceived Pleasantness with Socioeconomic Variables

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Carrilho,

Sousa

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Living in urban areas is the wish of many people. However, with population growth in those areas, quality of life has become a concerning element for achieving sustainable cities. Because quality of life is influenced by the built environment, the state of the latter is a fundamental issue for public policies. This research expands on previous research on the perceived pleasantness of built environments by presenting a large-scale case study of the urban layout pleasantness in the central area of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a typical global south city, and correlating pleasantness scores with socioeconomic factors to understand whether people do in fact live where the urban layout is more pleasant and how pleasantness and socioeconomic factors relate and contribute to one’s choice of living location. A comparison with the city of Coimbra, Portugal, representative of the global north, was also carried out. The findings showed that pleasantness tended to correlate negatively with urban density and positively with income. Possible explanations for these results and their generality are advanced.

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Benchmarking City Layouts—A Methodological Approach and an Accessibility Comparison between a Real City and the Garden City

Cited by 11 publications

References 82 publications

Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Public Fitness Venues: An Urban Accessibility Perspective

Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Public Fitness Venues: An Urban Accessibility Perspective

Identification of land system transformations in the Rzeszów city square

Do We Live Where It Is Pleasant? Correlates of Perceived Pleasantness with Socioeconomic Variables

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