Evidence of Jacobs’s street life in the great Seoul city: Identifying the association of physical environment with walking activity on streets

The effects of spatial accessibility and centrality to land use on walking in Seoul, Korea

“…However, less walking is present on car and cycling roads mixed with walking streets. These patterns contrast with those presented by Sung, Go, and Choi (2013) for Seoul, but agree with the findings of other studies (Giles-Corti et al, 2005;Moudon, Hess, Snyder, & Stanilov, 1997). These contrasting findings may be explained by variable discrepancies controlling for spatial accessibility and centrality to the built volume of each land use and by the disparity in variable composition.…”

Neighbourhood vitality and physical activity among the elderly: The role of walkable environments on active ageing in Barcelona, Spain

“…For Jacobs, the vitality of the streets was a product of the diversity of the built environment, and the presence of pedestrians served as an indicator of the city liveliness (Sung et al, 2013). We thus understand urban vitality as a synonym of vibrant environments and we measure this vitality, not from a set of morphological indicators (Aditjandra et al, 2012) nor as a personal well-being indicator (Guite et al, 2006;Richard et al, 2009), but through the observation of mobility patterns.…”

Spatial Explicit Assessment of Urban Vitality Using Multi-Source Data: A Case of Shanghai, China

“…Jacobs argues that urban vitality is the synergetic product of diverse planning principles. Most of literatures have been devoted to explore the contribution of planning principles to urban vitality in a couple of US-European and Asian cities [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Under the framework, human flow related indicators are often used to represent urban vitality.…”

“…In European and Asian cities, nevertheless, vitalized elements tend to concentrate in downtown areas and thus be more prone to show a monocentric pattern. A large body of literatures have examined that within European and Asian cities, high urban vitality areas were often located in the central city, such as in Amsterdam [16], Milan [15], Seoul [13,14]. However, the limited literatures available have explored the intra-urban vital features in the context of developing countries, such as Chinese megacities.…”