Unpacking Walkability: Testing the Influence of Urban Design Features on Perceptions of Walking Environment Attractiveness

Adkins, Arlie; Dill, Jennifer; Luhr, Gretchen; Neal, Margaret B.

doi:10.1080/13574809.2012.706365

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“…Nonetheless, studies on environmental design for physical activity in older people suggest that elements of attractiveness and interest increase perceived walkability (Michael et al, 2006; Kerr et al, 2012). On the other hand, however, perceptions of walkability are influenced by design qualities which make environments more accessible, such as legible topography or increased network connectivity (Guo, 2009; Adkins et al, 2012). These qualities have been in fact associated with positive perceptions of usability and walkability both in healthy older individuals (e.g., in relation to street connectivity and accessibility to services; see Rosso et al, 2011; Kerr et al, 2012), and in patients populations (Mitchell et al, 2004; Mitchell and Burton, 2006; Joseph and Zimring, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

Complexity As Key to Designing Cognitive-Friendly Environments for Older People

Cassarino

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2016

Front. Psychol.

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The lived environment is the arena where our cognitive skills, preferences, and attitudes come together to determine our ability to interact with the world. The mechanisms through which lived environments can benefit cognitive health in older age are yet to be fully understood. The existing literature suggests that environments which are perceived as stimulating, usable and aesthetically appealing can improve or facilitate cognitive performance both in young and older age. Importantly, optimal stimulation for cognition seems to depend on experiencing sufficiently stimulating environments while not too challenging. Environmental complexity is an important contributor to determining whether an environment provides such an optimal stimulation. The present paper reviews a selection of studies which have explored complexity in relation to perceptual load, environmental preference and perceived usability to propose a framework which explores direct and indirect environmental influences on cognition, and to understand these influences in relation to aging processes. We identify ways to define complexity at different environmental scales, going from micro low-level perceptual features of scenes, to design qualities of proximal environments (e.g., streets, neighborhoods), to broad geographical areas (i.e., natural vs. urban environments). We propose that studying complexity at these different scales will provide new insight into the design of cognitive-friendly environments.

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Section: Complexity and Perceived Usabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Complexity As Key to Designing Cognitive-Friendly Environments for Older People

Cassarino

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2016

Front. Psychol.

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“…A variety of urban qualities that may enhance public use of urban spaces have been identified; these include large-scale structures but also specific design features, such as smaller-scale elements of urban form; i.e., presence of trees, safe crossings, and adequate lighting (see van Loon and Frank, 2011, for a review). In this regard, a detailed understanding of how such micro-scale urban design qualities lead to improved user experience is called for (Adkins et al, 2012; Harris et al, 2013). …”

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A New Method of Random Environmental Walking for Assessing Behavioral Preferences for Different Lighting Applications

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Accurate assessment of people’s preferences for different outdoor lighting applications is increasingly considered important in the development of new urban environments. Here a new method of random environmental walking is proposed to complement current methods of assessing urban lighting applications, such as self-report questionnaires. The procedure involves participants repeatedly walking between different lighting applications by random selection of a lighting application and preferred choice or by random selection of a lighting application alone. In this manner, participants are exposed to all lighting applications of interest more than once and participants’ preferences for the different lighting applications are reflected in the number of times they walk to each lighting application. On the basis of an initial simulation study, to explore the feasibility of this approach, a comprehensive field test was undertaken. The field test included random environmental walking and collection of participants’ subjective ratings of perceived pleasantness (PP), perceived quality, perceived strength, and perceived flicker of four lighting applications. The results indicate that random environmental walking can reveal participants’ preferences for different lighting applications that, in the present study, conformed to participants’ ratings of PP and perceived quality of the lighting applications. As a complement to subjectively stated environmental preferences, random environmental walking has the potential to expose behavioral preferences for different lighting applications.

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“…The meaning of comfort is also contained in the 'spaciousness' [11], 'convenience' [8], 'aesthetics' [14], 'walkway width' and 'walkway quality' [15], 'quietness' [10], and even 'green streets' [16]. Such a broadness of meaning is contained in 'comfort'.…”

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“…Especially if that walk are children or old people, safety standards will be different from adults or who do not have certain limitations. Safety perceptions from vehicle traffic in the built environment significantly influences walking as transport mode [11,16]. Although traffic volume can be calculated to get the actual amount of traffic, still the perceptions of safety can vary for each person.…”

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Relationship between train users’ perceptions of walkability with access and egress mode choice

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Abstract. The purpose of this study is to understand whether there is a relationship between train users' perceptions of walkability in built environment of trip origin with access mode choice and between train users' perceptions of walkability in built environment of trip destination with egress mode choice. Train users are who ride from Cicalengka station Bandung Regency, West Java, Indonesia. To analyze the relationship is used crosstab method. The perceptual factors about walkability are those perceived by the train users consisting of walking distance, safety, comfort, and secure from crime, both in origin and destination of the built environment. The mode choice consist of walking, paratransit, motorcycle taxi, and own vehicles (or others for egress mode). To better understand the relationship is used several control variables, that are trip purposes, train usage, gender, and age. For access trip there is another control variable, that is vehicle ownership. Train users' perceptions of walkability have a relationship with both the access and the egress mode choice, except for the security aspect. The influence of control variables on the relationship between perceptions of walkability with access/egress mode choice varies for walking distance, safety, and comfort.

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Unpacking Walkability: Testing the Influence of Urban Design Features on Perceptions of Walking Environment Attractiveness

Cited by 164 publications

References 34 publications

Complexity As Key to Designing Cognitive-Friendly Environments for Older People

Complexity As Key to Designing Cognitive-Friendly Environments for Older People

A New Method of Random Environmental Walking for Assessing Behavioral Preferences for Different Lighting Applications

Relationship between train users’ perceptions of walkability with access and egress mode choice

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