Designing walkable streets in congested touristic cities: the case of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

González-Urango, Hannia; Pira, Michela Le; Inturri, Giuseppe; Ignaccolo, Matteo; García‐Melón, Mónica

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2020.03.021

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“…The scoping review showed that the first taxonomy includes terms and concepts, e.g., pedestrians only [46,81] pedestrian zone movement, pedestrian malls, a complete street, pedestrianized streets, and pedestrian corridors [40,57]. The second includes terms and concepts, e.g., walkable city [6,40] walkable environments [40], walkable neighborhoods [10,82] walkable communities, walkable streets or walkable urban streets [17,62,82], and urban walkability or street walkability [17]. A review of the current literature shows that classifications of pedestrianization and walkability may follow a transit-oriented development strategy [63].…”

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“…However, there are opportunities for pedestrianization in car-free zones in transit-oriented European cities, as highlighted by Murakami et al, which can contribute to local economic development [40]. On the other hand, Gonzalez-Urango et al [82] and Brownrigg-Gleeson et al [39] found that converting areas into pedestrian zones resulted in high citizen satisfaction, was perceived positively by businesspeople for commercial purposes and increased perceived attractiveness.…”

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Revisiting Urban Street Planning and Design Factors to Promote Walking as a Physical Activity for Middle-Class Individuals with Metabolic Syndrome in Cairo, Egypt

Abusaada,

Elshater

2024

IJERPH

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This paper revisits the planning and design factors of “pedestrianized” and “walkable” urban streets to encourage physical activity, focusing on their prioritization according to public health and smart growth. The aim is to create a conceptual framework for urban planners and designers to encourage walking and reduce metabolic syndrome (MetS) risks. Through a scoping review, the study found that while pedestrianized and walkable streets share many planning and design factors, they have different objectives. The study explores how urban planning and design can reduce MetS risk among middle-class individuals using online video storytelling for 30 participants in three districts of Cairo, Egypt: El Zamalek, Old Cairo, and Heliopolis. It identifies three factors to address MetS symptoms for middle-class individuals: strategic, design-oriented, and technical. Practitioners and policymakers can use this framework to evaluate the impact of their work. This study is particularly relevant for cities in the Global South that are facing similar challenges.

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Revisiting Urban Street Planning and Design Factors to Promote Walking as a Physical Activity for Middle-Class Individuals with Metabolic Syndrome in Cairo, Egypt

Abusaada,

Elshater

2024

IJERPH

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“…Participative planning, which consists of a collaboration of the administrative sphere with the public, is a very effective form of strategic management and is being increasingly utilized in practice. Experience with involving the public in decisions concerning changes to the use of land, including visualization by means of GIS, has been described by a number of authors [5][6][7][8]. There are numerous studies based on public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS), where "spatially explicit perception and evaluation statements" are obtained from the parties involved and subsequently integrated with existing land cover maps [9].…”

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Mapping Landscape Values and Conflicts through the Optics of Different User Groups

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Fukalová

Svobodová

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The paper presents the results of the study on participative mapping of landscape values and conflicts and a subsequent interpretation of the indicated localities from respondents’ point of view. The study focused on younger groups of landscape users—lower-secondary-school students (aged 11–15) and university students (aged 20–25)—in comparison with experts’ points of view. The research presumed that the perception of landscape values and issues are determined by age, level of education and by experience in the field. The study was conducted in the southeastern area of the Czech Republic (49° N, 16° E) via online data collection. Based on the obtained records, we conclude that, in terms of the typology of the valuable and problematic locations, the individual groups of respondents did not differ significantly and the selection of location types was similar across all groups. Lower-secondary-school students rather identified cultural values associated with everyday activities, and the descriptions contained emotional overtones. University students preferred natural values associated with formal values based on general consensus or conflicts associated with society-wide impacts. The experts base served as the benchmark for other groups.

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“…Research on walkability has been conducted a lot before. Walkability itself can be studied from several fields of science such as health concerning physical activity from walking (El-zemrany and Kandil, 2019;Isiagi et al, 2021;Rebecchi et al, 2019;Usón and Fernandez-Anez, 2020), behavioral studies (Battista and Manaugh, 2019;Cambra and Moura, 2020;Frank et al, 2005;Hatamzadeh et al, 2017;Lee and Dean, 2018;Prima and Prayogi, 2020), urban design (Meetiyagoda, 2018;Ortega et al, 2020;Ujang and Muslim, 2014), and transportation planning (Al-Thani and Furlan, 2020;Gonzalez-Urango et al, 2020;Middleton, 2021). In Indonesia, research on walkability has also been conducted in Surabaya, Jakarta, and Banjarmasin (Sari et al, 2020;Afkara and Kusuma, 2020;Tanan and Darmoyono, 2017).…”

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Walkability Concept Toward Sustainable City: Comparative Insights of Brisbane and Bogor Urban Areas

Yazid

Hasibuan

Koestoer

2023

indones. j. env. man. sus.

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A successful sustainable city prioritizes humans by integrating the transportation system with urban development. One of which is considering walkability. The walkability concept is important since walking reduces congestion, promotes low environmental impacts, and possesses social and economic values. Land use integration with walkable pedestrian facilities is a challenge for stakeholders in creating policies to actualize a sustainable city. This paper reviews the walkability condition and policies concerning pedestrian facilities in Brisbane, Australia and Bogor, Indonesia. Bogor was selected due to its strategic location as Jakarta’s satellite city. Method used was literature review with comparative analysis, analyzing similarities, differences, advantages, and disadvantages of urban policies in prioritizing humans to achieve walkable and sustainable city in Australia and Indonesia. The indicators determining Brisbane community’s behavior to walk are distance to destination (59%), travel time (14%), hot weather (19%), roads with various altitudes (4%), lack of paths (3%), and lack of green areas (1%). In Bogor, Indonesia, pedestrian facilities are lacked for people with special needs, elderlies, children, and pregnant women (16.5%), unsafe crossing facilities (19.8%), and unsafe rider behaviors (15.8%). Policies related to walkability can be used as a basis to influence the behavior of urban communities in walking, to achieve the shared goal: a sustainable city.

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Designing walkable streets in congested touristic cities: the case of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

Revisiting Urban Street Planning and Design Factors to Promote Walking as a Physical Activity for Middle-Class Individuals with Metabolic Syndrome in Cairo, Egypt

Revisiting Urban Street Planning and Design Factors to Promote Walking as a Physical Activity for Middle-Class Individuals with Metabolic Syndrome in Cairo, Egypt

Mapping Landscape Values and Conflicts through the Optics of Different User Groups

Walkability Concept Toward Sustainable City: Comparative Insights of Brisbane and Bogor Urban Areas

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