Urban Vitality, Urban Form, and Land Use: Their Relations within a Geographical Boundary for Walkers

Kim, Suji

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“…Urban shrinkage, as an important process of urbanization, is also an expression of urban state, which is caused by various reasons and also has multiple influences. Urban vitality, also as a manifestation of urban state, aims to pay attention to the quality of the city [ 49 ]. Studying the correlation between urban shrinkage and urban vitality makes up for theoretical shortcomings in related fields, explores the development needs of shrinking cities at current stage, and provides theoretical guidance for the planning and design of shrinking cities.…”

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“…Cultural vitality and environmental vitality, as factors closely related to people, respectively reflect the level of urban carrying capacity and soft power. The changes of both are accompanied by urban shrinkage, and they can often reflect the key of cities’ energy beyond the population and economic level [ 49 , 51 ]. The impact of urban shrinkage on social vitality and spatial vitality is certainly small.…”

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Urban Shrinkage and Urban Vitality Correlation Research in the Three Northeastern Provinces of China

Jiang

Sun

2022

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In the global trend of urban shrinkage, urban vitality, as one of the important representations of high-quality urban development, has become a breakthrough. More and more scholars advocate to awaken urban vitality, so as to realize the high-quality development of shrinking cities. This paper takes the municipal districts of 34 cities in the three northeastern provinces of China as study areas, based on the broad concept of urban shrinkage, selects the indicators of population, economy and society, and uses the “two-step diagnostic method” which is consistent with Chinese conditions to identify the urban shrinkage from 2010 to 2018. In this research, the indexes of economic, social, cultural, environmental and spatial dimensions are selected, and the urban vitality and the vitality of each dimension from 2010 to 2018 are calculated and analyzed by using the entropy weight method (EWM). Then, this paper analyzes the correlation between urban shrinkage and urban vitality by Pearson correlation coefficient. The results show that: (1) urban shrinkage in the three northeastern provinces of China has become a regional remarkable phenomenon, which is also an inevitable process in some regions of China and even the world; (2) overall, the urban vitality of cities in the three northeastern provinces of China is steady and rising a little, and there is an obvious spatial agglomeration pattern like “central city polarization”; (3) there is a significant correlation between urban shrinkage and urban vitality, that is, the lower the degree of urban shrinkage, the higher the urban vitality, showing the opposite trend in the process of urban development; (4) the influence of urban shrinkage on each dimension of urban vitality is different, and the correlation results are different, too. In the planning process of shrinking cities in the future, paying attention to the relationship between urban vitality and urban shrinkage, conducting benign guidance on this basis, and adjusting urban vitality elements of different dimensions to stimulate urban development power can enhance urban competitiveness and achieve better development.

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Urban Shrinkage and Urban Vitality Correlation Research in the Three Northeastern Provinces of China

Jiang

Sun

2022

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“…The significance of the indicated variables is a key result of the comparative analysis of the selected articles. More specifically, the literature review identifies as a central determinant of urbanity and vitality the distribution of land uses, and in particular, the density and diversity of uses (Tang et al 2018;Yue et al 2019Yue et al , 2021Zumelzu and Barrientos-Trinanes 2019;Fuentes et al 2020;Kim 2020;Li et al 2020;Liu et al 2020;Niklas et al 2020;Zhong et al 2020). A significant influence on vitality is also determined by access conditions, which are determined by the configuration of the streets and public open space system (Ye and Van Nes 2014;Ye et al 2017;Tang et al 2018;Delclòs-Alió and Miralles-Guasch 2018;Zeng et al 2018;Lu et al 2019;Meng and Xing 2019;Fuentes et al 2020;Kim 2020;Li et al 2020;Liu et al 2020), as well as the organisation of the mass transit system, described in terms of the distribution of its nodes (Tang et al 2018;Garau and Annunziata City, Territory and Architecture (2022) 9:7 Delclòs-Alió and Miralles-Guasch 2018; Lu et al 2019;Yue et al 2019Yue et al , 2021Fuentes et al 2020;Li et al 2020;Liu et al 2020;Zhong et al 2020).…”

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A method for assessing the vitality potential of urban areas. The case study of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari, Italy

Garau

Annunziata

2022

City Territ Archit

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Vitality and Urbanity emerge as key goals of strategies for urban sustainable development as necessary prerequisites for varied and prosperous cities. Vitality and urbanity are characteristics that emerge from the diversity of urban public spaces activities and have an impact on a people's sense of place. The proposed research examines the built environment components that impact urbanity and vitality and develops an analytic method for quantifying the potential of urban form to promote urbanity and vitality. The research investigates four aspects: (i) the conceptualization of urbanity and vitality; (ii) the identification of factors affecting urbanity and vitality; (iii) the definition of indicators and protocols; (iv) the application of the proposed analytic method for measuring the vitality potential of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari (MCC), in Sardinia, Italy. This study underlines the relevance of combining space syntax and spatial analysis techniques in order to address four issues concerning sustainable urban development: quantitative description of urban-friendly conditions, identification of spatial manifestations of social and economic processes, understanding of criticalities, and formulation of policies and strategies for reinforcing vibrant urban spaces. Thus, the proposed analytic method contributes to the application of the Geodesign paradigm to the urban realm by supporting the understanding of the conditions affecting the vitality and urbanity of the built environment.

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“…The phrase, "useful people density," refers to the notion of urban vitality to find optimum density in the process of urban design. On the other hand, the terms, "congestion" or "crowdedness," as an extra agglomeration of economic activities and/or people in the public urban spaces, could be considered as a negative aspect in assessing the vitality of urban spaces (Kim, 2020). So, we, as urban designers, need to bear the phrase, "useful people density" in mind, during our design process.…”

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The Role of Urban Aesthetics on Enhancing Vitality of Urban Spaces

2021

KU Studies

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Several scholars have focused on the different approaches in designing convivial urban spaces, but literary evidence shows that the essence of aesthetic design in public urban spaces, by referring to the main dimensions involved in the shaping of urban vitality, has not been adequately researched. In this regard, this study, by hypothesizing that the quality of urban design leads to a vital urban environment, focuses on urban vitality from the aesthetic point of view. Thus, in using qualitative grounded theory as a main methodological tool and using a systematic review of the related literature as the main induction approach for collecting qualitative data, five main dimensions of urban vitality, which are necessary to attain a correlation with the aesthetic quality of urban design, were conceptualized. The study concludes that the aesthetic design of an urban setting has a direct effect on the active involvement of its users and that this, therefore, has a direct consequence on the level of public urban vitality, manifested. Integrating the complexity theory with the five main dimensions used for assessing urban vitality was suggested as a viable area for further research.

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Urban Vitality, Urban Form, and Land Use: Their Relations within a Geographical Boundary for Walkers

Cited by 24 publications

References 35 publications

Urban Shrinkage and Urban Vitality Correlation Research in the Three Northeastern Provinces of China

Urban Shrinkage and Urban Vitality Correlation Research in the Three Northeastern Provinces of China

A method for assessing the vitality potential of urban areas. The case study of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari, Italy

The Role of Urban Aesthetics on Enhancing Vitality of Urban Spaces

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