Deep Design: pathways to a livable future

Partnering to create a more livable city: the Livable St Louis Network.

CONTEXT Physical inactivity is a major public health problem. While individual (eg, attitudes, values, beliefs) and social (eg, social support) factors play a role, access to an activity-safe local environment can have a significant influence. Environments that include accessible opportunities for physical activity, a component of livability, require cooperation from many sectors including nonp...

Livable Housing Design – Is It Likely to Work?

The lack for accessible housing in Australia has contributed to the marginalisation and exclusion of people with disability, older people and their families (Saugeres, 2010). It has also resulted in significant cost to the community, through an over-reliance on support services and specialist accommodation, and responses to avoidable home-based injuries (Ozanne-Smith, Guy, Kelly & Clapperton, 2...

Livable Lives Initiative

We propose to use the funds as a seed grant. The proposed research will provide the preliminary work necessary to submit a major funding proposal. The overall aim is the identification of the best housing relocation policy in terms of the achievement of livable lives. To accomplish this goal we will estimate a model of location choice and models of neighborhood effects using data from the "movi...

Innovative Bike-Sharing Design as a Research and Educational Platform for Promoting More Livable Urban Futures

Studying the viability of innovative urban access design is the key to achieve optimum results when attempting to transform dogmatism referring to conventional car-orientation into a meaningful driver of modal change that is founded on the actual societal needs for future transportation. An efficient public bicycle scheme could be the very definition of a solution that could encourage and even ...

Book Review: Wisdom for a livable planet