Sustainable livable housing: A review of what traditional urban areas residents find important

Lukuman, Musibau; Sipan, Ibrahim; Raji, Fauziah; Aderemi, Olofa S

doi:10.11113/ijbes.v4.n3.212

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“…Economic (Lauf et al, 2014;Ruth and Franklin, 2014;Gough, 2015;Newell et al, 2018;Martínez-Bravo et al, 2019). (Ruth and Franklin, 2014;Lukuman et al, 2017). Walkability is not the only defining factor in determining social characteristics such as crime rates or school safety, and it is easily overruled by the negative aspects of historic discriminatory racial, gendered, and socioeconomic patterns that take place in many urban developments; in these contexts, crime and sense of insecurity emerge as barriers to walking (Zhu and Lee, 2008;Comer and Greene, 2015;Cowen et al, 2019).…”

Section: Walkability Livability and The Connection With Sustainabilitymentioning

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Walkability and Its Relationships With Health, Sustainability, and Livability: Elements of Physical Environment and Evaluation Frameworks

Baobeid

Koç

Al-Ghamdi

2021

Front. Built Environ.

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Urban sprawl and increasing population density in urban centers create the challenge to finding ways of sustainable transportation solutions that preserve the convenience of residents while reducing emissions. Therefore, walkability is a core urban design element because of being advantageous onto three fronts: health, livability, and sustainability. Adopting walkability as urban solution relieves conceptual and practical tensions between the individualistic interests manifested in the desire to own and use private cars, and the need to reduce transportation-based consumption. This review advocates that long-term health benefits from walking and physical activity are the premier incentive to repurpose our cities to be more sustainable and more walking friendly, and spark behavioral change into reducing car dependency for all daily transportations. The review inspects physical elements of the built environment that make the walking trip feasible and desirable, such as connectivity, accessibility, and closeness of destination points, presence of greenness and parks, commercial retail, and proximity to transit hubs and stations. Hence, this review explores a few popular walkability evaluation indices and frameworks that employ subjective, objective, and/or distinctive methods within variant environmental, cultural, and national context. There is no unified universal standardized walkability theory despite the need for rigorous evaluation tools for policy makers and developers. Furthermore, there is a lack of emphasis on air quality and thermal stress while approaching walkability, despite being important elements in the walking experience. Research opportunities in the field of walkability can leverage location tracking from smart devices and identify the interaction patterns of pedestrians with other transportation modes, especially for those with fundamental movement challenges such as wheelchair users.

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Section: Walkability Livability and The Connection With Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Walkability and Its Relationships With Health, Sustainability, and Livability: Elements of Physical Environment and Evaluation Frameworks

Baobeid

Koç

Al-Ghamdi

2021

Front. Built Environ.

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“…Despite these foregoing realities, research in this area has been drought or rather lopsided. Apart from focusing on the four residential satisfaction assessment areas earlier stated, other studies have concentrated on subjective measurement criteria such as neighbourhood amenities, economic vitality, social environment and civic protection, infrastructure facilities, housing conditions, sanitary facilities, environmental conditions as well as associated disasters [44][45][46]. It is against this backdrop that this study was set out to assess the acoustical performance of residential buildings in Awka, Anambra State to determine if the satisfaction level of the occupants is associated with the performance level.…”

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Assessment of Acoustical Performance of Residential Buildings for Sustainable Liveability and Satisfaction in Awka, Anambra State Nigeria

Okoye

Ngwu

Ohaedeghasi

2020

AJEE

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This study assessed the acoustical performance of residential buildings in Awka, Anambra State to determine the level of satisfactions of the occupants. The study surveyed the residential buildings and distributed questionnaires to the users and occupiers of different classes of residential buildings. The results of the survey were analysed using Means Satisfaction Index (MSI) and Relative Performance Index (RPI) to assess the level of satisfaction of the occupants of the buildings and the acoustical performance of the buildings respectively based on 12 selected acoustic performance criteria. It further used Pearson Product Moment Correlation to establish the relationship between occupants’ level of satisfaction and acoustic performance of the buildings. The study found that the overall acoustic performance of the buildings was grossly poor and unsatisfactory with average RPI of 0.35. It also found that the residents were very dissatisfied with the acoustic performance of the buildings in which they live (average MSI =1.74). The study further found that there was significant positive relationship between the occupants’ level of satisfaction and acoustic performance of the buildings with a Coefficient Correlation (r) of 0.875 and a computed t-test value of 5.708 which is greater than the critical t- value (2.228) tested at 5% significance level. The Coefficient of Determination (R2 = 0.7567) then suggested that about 75.69% level of satisfaction of the occupants of the residential buildings in Awka could be triggered by the acoustic performance of the buildings in which they live. On this evidence, the study craves for the enforcement of the provisions of the National Building Code as regards to sound control in buildings. In addition, there is need for adoption of different strategies for improving acoustics performance of buildings such as absorption, mechanical decoupling, mechanical damping, blocking, covering, etc., so as to promote good acoustic practices that would improve sustainable performance of our buildings and decline the resulting consequences of sounds in our residential buildings.

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“…Based on these responses, the importance of each parameter (which correlates to livability of a proper social housing) was computed by the basic Relative Importance Index (RII) formula [equation ( 1)] (Lukuman et al, 2017). This is generally used for simple statistical computations.…”

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Understanding sustainable strategies in low-cost housing

Krishna

Roshan

Sivapriya

2019

IJHMA

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Purpose This paper aims to understand the incorporation of sustainability methods of construction through the study of a low-cost housing Tamil Nadu Housing Board settlement in a locality in Chennai, India. Such a study helps to arrive at proper design decisions and incorporate a participatory approach involving the residents to enable the developers, here the decision-makers of the government, cater to the local interests. Design/methodology/approach First, a survey was conducted to understand the local conditions and people’s aspirations. Along with this, the parameters pertaining to a green housing were derived and compared with the needs of the locals, to arrive at the most influencing parameters by decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory model (DEMATEL) analysis. Findings The study finds that parameters viz. “ensuring basic services” and “social inclusivity” happen to be the causal factors that seem to influence the needs of the locals. These factors therefore can guide the future plans to redevelop the settlement or construct similar settlements in a more sustainable way. Originality/value This paper is a unique study to combine the twin pillars of low-cost housing and sustainability, which helps in developing settlements that are conducive to the city’s socio-developmental requirements as well as respectful of the natural environment. Further, the analysis conducted through DEMATEL method could essentially guide the decision-maker to tackle urban challenges in the most locally suitable and sustainable approach.

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Sustainable livable housing: A review of what traditional urban areas residents find important

Cited by 16 publications

References 29 publications

Walkability and Its Relationships With Health, Sustainability, and Livability: Elements of Physical Environment and Evaluation Frameworks

Walkability and Its Relationships With Health, Sustainability, and Livability: Elements of Physical Environment and Evaluation Frameworks

Assessment of Acoustical Performance of Residential Buildings for Sustainable Liveability and Satisfaction in Awka, Anambra State Nigeria

Understanding sustainable strategies in low-cost housing

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