Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2022.2128313
Minna Eronen, Åsa Wikberg Nilsson
ABSTRACT The co-design of urban places and the role of professional urban designers entails facilitating multidimensional processes to capture people’s dreams of attractive and inclusive future living environments. Nevertheless, many urban designers tend to focus on the material factors rather than the social and cultural ones. Based on findings from a case study and conceptual analysis, a systemic reflexive tool is offered to help scholars and practitioners to comprise the complexities of urban design. The Dreamcatcher tool highlights four perspectives of situated complexity and the synergies between them: place and setting; people and participation; vision and scope; and tools and methods.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2022.2118697
J. Hollander, A. Sussman, P. Lowitt, Neil Angus, Minyu Situ, Aliya Magnuson
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to use eye-tracking emulation software to understand and forecast the human responses to signage and directional cues in Massachusetts, USA. Using eye-tracking emulation software, this study measured the unconscious visual responses people are projected to have to designs and layouts in new built environments, focusing on what makes streets most walkable. The study found differences between the way the brain takes in conventional automobile-oriented residential developments versus new urbanist layouts, with the former lacking key fixation points. The study’s discoveries explain why new urbanist layouts promote walking effortlessly and conventional automobile-oriented residential developments cannot.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-20DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2022.2121272
C. Milne, D. Pojani
ABSTRACT In public art, the paradigm is shifting from ‘look but don’t touch’ towards interactive displays and creations that involve visitors. Accordingly, this study examined some of the factors that lead audiences to interact and engage with public art. Systematic observations of the ‘users’ of 11 public sculptures were conducted in Brisbane, Australia. The investigation revealed that the design features of public art are key to encouraging or deterring visitors. Interaction levels are higher on weekends than on weekdays whereas factors such as the time of day and the location of artworks (parkland, CBD, or neighbourhood) are less influential.
{"title":"Public art in cities: what makes it engaging and interactive?","authors":"C. Milne, D. Pojani","doi":"10.1080/13574809.2022.2121272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2022.2121272","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In public art, the paradigm is shifting from ‘look but don’t touch’ towards interactive displays and creations that involve visitors. Accordingly, this study examined some of the factors that lead audiences to interact and engage with public art. Systematic observations of the ‘users’ of 11 public sculptures were conducted in Brisbane, Australia. The investigation revealed that the design features of public art are key to encouraging or deterring visitors. Interaction levels are higher on weekends than on weekdays whereas factors such as the time of day and the location of artworks (parkland, CBD, or neighbourhood) are less influential.","PeriodicalId":47466,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Design","volume":"28 1","pages":"296 - 315"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42026619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-06DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2022.2118698
Chuo Li, Jing Zhao, Junjun Yin, G. Chi
ABSTRACT This study analysed the association between park access and physical activity in an urban context by extracting tweets from the social media platform Twitter. The results show that areas within a 0.5-mile distance to a park correlate with more physical activity than areas farther than that. Park type might be an essential mediator for the correlation between park size and physical activity. This study suggests that geolocated Twitter data are a viable source of information for researchers inquiring about factors related to urban open space that can contribute to public health.
{"title":"Park access affects physical activity: new evidence from geolocated Twitter data analysis","authors":"Chuo Li, Jing Zhao, Junjun Yin, G. Chi","doi":"10.1080/13574809.2022.2118698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2022.2118698","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study analysed the association between park access and physical activity in an urban context by extracting tweets from the social media platform Twitter. The results show that areas within a 0.5-mile distance to a park correlate with more physical activity than areas farther than that. Park type might be an essential mediator for the correlation between park size and physical activity. This study suggests that geolocated Twitter data are a viable source of information for researchers inquiring about factors related to urban open space that can contribute to public health.","PeriodicalId":47466,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Design","volume":"28 1","pages":"316 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45316260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2022.2053283
Bruno Sève, Ernesto Redondo, Roberto Sega
ABSTRACT Participation processes first emerged in the twentieth century and are becoming more common in democratic urban planning processes. In resilient, inclusive urban regeneration, the inhabitants are involved in transforming cities. Today, these processes are evolving and new creative tools are emerging. The aim of this research is to understand facets of what is known as urban co-creation by analysing experiments and classifying into a taxonomy their tools, the type of urban space involved, the duration, and the purposes. The use of the taxonomy in case studies shows how participation can be synthesized using a relatively simple code of pattern combinations.
{"title":"Urban co-creation taxonomy","authors":"Bruno Sève, Ernesto Redondo, Roberto Sega","doi":"10.1080/13574809.2022.2053283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2022.2053283","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Participation processes first emerged in the twentieth century and are becoming more common in democratic urban planning processes. In resilient, inclusive urban regeneration, the inhabitants are involved in transforming cities. Today, these processes are evolving and new creative tools are emerging. The aim of this research is to understand facets of what is known as urban co-creation by analysing experiments and classifying into a taxonomy their tools, the type of urban space involved, the duration, and the purposes. The use of the taxonomy in case studies shows how participation can be synthesized using a relatively simple code of pattern combinations.","PeriodicalId":47466,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Design","volume":"27 1","pages":"589 - 604"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45986540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2022.2112513
Vanessa Joy A. Anacta
ABSTRACT Sketch maps reveal important features that reflect people’s understanding of the environment. This study presents how the different types of sketch maps highlighted shared spatial knowledge through a theory-based approach to skeletal map development. Sketch maps collected from 123 university students demonstrated that the information drawn combined sequential (streets) and spatial elements highly dominated by landmarks. Students’ cognitive image of the campus is influenced by open spaces as structuring regional features. The paper illustrated a quick visualization of the spatial layout and how the shared features are described in the route instructions that may be useful during wayfinding.
{"title":"Illustrating shared features of students’ cognitive image of a university campus","authors":"Vanessa Joy A. Anacta","doi":"10.1080/13574809.2022.2112513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2022.2112513","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sketch maps reveal important features that reflect people’s understanding of the environment. This study presents how the different types of sketch maps highlighted shared spatial knowledge through a theory-based approach to skeletal map development. Sketch maps collected from 123 university students demonstrated that the information drawn combined sequential (streets) and spatial elements highly dominated by landmarks. Students’ cognitive image of the campus is influenced by open spaces as structuring regional features. The paper illustrated a quick visualization of the spatial layout and how the shared features are described in the route instructions that may be useful during wayfinding.","PeriodicalId":47466,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Design","volume":"28 1","pages":"336 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44094994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2022.2112512
Monica Landgrave-Serrano, Philip Stoker
ABSTRACT Slow Streets promote walkability and provide safe spaces for active travel and recreation by minimizing vehicle traffic on roads. Their effectiveness was tested when the City of Tucson implemented Slow Streets by temporarily closing certain neighbourhood streets to all but local traffic, giving people more space to safely walk, run, and bicycle. Using a quasi-experimental research design, it was possible to measure differences in walking and bicycling between Slow Streets and control streets. Results show Slow Streets are effective in increasing the number of people walking and bicycling on neighbourhood streets, especially while the temporary traffic barriers were in place.
{"title":"Increasing physical activity and active transportation in an arid city: Slow Streets and the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Monica Landgrave-Serrano, Philip Stoker","doi":"10.1080/13574809.2022.2112512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2022.2112512","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Slow Streets promote walkability and provide safe spaces for active travel and recreation by minimizing vehicle traffic on roads. Their effectiveness was tested when the City of Tucson implemented Slow Streets by temporarily closing certain neighbourhood streets to all but local traffic, giving people more space to safely walk, run, and bicycle. Using a quasi-experimental research design, it was possible to measure differences in walking and bicycling between Slow Streets and control streets. Results show Slow Streets are effective in increasing the number of people walking and bicycling on neighbourhood streets, especially while the temporary traffic barriers were in place.","PeriodicalId":47466,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Design","volume":"28 1","pages":"155 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49067109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2022.2097862
Annette Bredmose, Sidse Grangaard, V. L. Lygum, A. R. Hansen
ABSTRACT This paper is based on a questionnaire of all Danish Orientation & Mobility instructors, assessing the importance of 34 physical elements as clues in the pedestrian environment to support blind and visually impaired people (BVIP)’s orientation. The aim is to contribute to a body of knowledge about why the design of physical elements is so crucial for (BVIP)’s orientation, accounting for the perceptual sight function and using other senses to compensate for the impaired vision. The study shows that all elements were generally assessed as being very important. Furthermore, the paper discusses how to plan urban space in the future.
{"title":"Mapping the importance of specific physical elements in urban space for blind and visually impaired people","authors":"Annette Bredmose, Sidse Grangaard, V. L. Lygum, A. R. Hansen","doi":"10.1080/13574809.2022.2097862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2022.2097862","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper is based on a questionnaire of all Danish Orientation & Mobility instructors, assessing the importance of 34 physical elements as clues in the pedestrian environment to support blind and visually impaired people (BVIP)’s orientation. The aim is to contribute to a body of knowledge about why the design of physical elements is so crucial for (BVIP)’s orientation, accounting for the perceptual sight function and using other senses to compensate for the impaired vision. The study shows that all elements were generally assessed as being very important. Furthermore, the paper discusses how to plan urban space in the future.","PeriodicalId":47466,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Design","volume":"28 1","pages":"139 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43376831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-16DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2022.2105199
K. Alawadi, Asim Khanal, Rawan Sohdy Abdelfattah
ABSTRACT Alleys have been neglected in the definition of urban form even though they have existed since antiquity and have served a variety of purposes. This paper identifies alleys as a critical space, especially at the neighbourhood scale. Neighbourhood samples belonging to different growth phases in Abu Dhabi and Dubai are taken as case studies to document the changing morphologies of alleys. Morphological mapping identified ten typologies of alleys. Findings indicate that sometimes alleys are equivalent to streets in terms of occupied land, pattern, density, and length, and in rare occasions, their physical attributes even surpass those of neighbourhood streets.
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