Walkable Environment in Increasing the Liveability of a City

Shamsuddin, Shuhana; Hassan, Nur Rasyiqah Abu; Bilyamin, Siti Fatimah Ilani

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.08.025

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“…The sidewalk path context and quality of sidewalk network are adequate predictors to walkability that has the ability to affect the walking likelihood and increased walkability in a city [1][2][3][4]. Lack of walkable elements within the sidewalk can negatively affect pedestrian walking behavior [5]. Safe walking environment will also influenced pedestrian activities positively [6].…”

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Gender Differences in Pedestrian Perception and Satisfaction on the Walkability of Kuala Lumpur City Center

Arshad

Bahari

Hashim

et al. 2016

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Abstract. The quality of built environment usually influences the walkability of a city. This is because each pedestrian walk differently on different type of facilities or built environment provided to them. This paper aims to investigate whether gender differences influences the pedestrian perception and satisfaction level at three sidewalks located within the Kuala Lumpur City Center by means of questionnaire survey. A total of 317 pedestrians were involved in the questionnaire survey at the three different sidewalk locations. The result shows significant differences in mean satisfaction value between male and female pedestrians. Female pedestrian give lower satisfaction value for overall travel experience at Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman but higher satisfaction value at Petaling Street and Bukit Bintang compared to male pedestrian. Overall, the satisfaction level was rated between acceptable to satisfactory regardless of gender differences. Improvements should be made for the safety parameter because both male and female pedestrian gives lowest satisfaction level in that area.

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Gender Differences in Pedestrian Perception and Satisfaction on the Walkability of Kuala Lumpur City Center

Arshad

Bahari

Hashim

et al. 2016

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“…Many researchers have argued that walkable environment supports certain outdoor activities such as walking, exercising, etc. (Alfonzo, 2005;Frank et al, 2006;Shamsuddin, Hassan, & Bilyamin, 2012). Some significant environmental factors related to activity have been discussed such as accessibility, safety, comfort, and so on (Alfonzo, 2005).…”

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Improving Outdoor Activity in China’s Newly Developed Residential Communities?

Yin

Ohno

2018

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Evidences suggested outdoor activities in newly developed communities in China have become less active than older ones. Improving outdoor activities by physical environment is the major concern of this research. This paper used a basic social-ecological model to explain the mechanism of outdoor activities in China. An intensive survey was carried out to examine how environmental factors affect outdoor activities. 7668 users' activity data were obtained by observation, and the activities observed were categorized into three groups concerning environment involvement. The result suggested that some factors such as accessibility, environment supports are linked to outdoor activities in China.

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“…Urban trails are the walkways in the cities that build for encouraging people to stroll in them and they would have a direct relation to users. Studies demonstrated that walking and cycling in urban trails can have positive effects on user's mental and physical well-being (Shamsuddin, Hassan, & Bilyamin, 2012). Other studies showed that having urban trails near residential neighbourhoods can encourage children to play in them (Aziz & Said, 2012).…”

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“…Architects and urban designers try to design in a way that encourage people to be in a place and enjoy the ambience. Urban trails are necessary for citizen's health and activity, and they should have human oriented design (Shamsuddin et al, 2012). As urban trails have a direct relation to users and influence their health, enhancing their design quality can encourage people to use them more and be healthy (Marans, 2012).…”

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Neural Correlates of Mobile EEG and the Built Environment

Banaei

Yazdanfara

Nooreddina

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Enhancing urban trails design quality can encourage people to use them. This study compared two urban trails with different functions in Tehran. Trying to discover that while walking on the urban trails which parts of the path has the most effects on the cognitive functions of users. The aim is to enhance the urban trails quality by understanding human's reaction. We use electroencephalography device as a cognitive science tool. Results illustrate that first three minutes of strolling has the most cognitive effects on users. We suggest improving the space quality of urban trails after the first minutes of entrancing.

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Walkable Environment in Increasing the Liveability of a City

Cited by 119 publications

References 2 publications

Gender Differences in Pedestrian Perception and Satisfaction on the Walkability of Kuala Lumpur City Center

Gender Differences in Pedestrian Perception and Satisfaction on the Walkability of Kuala Lumpur City Center

Improving Outdoor Activity in China’s Newly Developed Residential Communities?

Neural Correlates of Mobile EEG and the Built Environment

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