Healthy Streets: Adopting International Benchmarks in Medium Density Cities
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Globally, large cities are implementing guidelines to ensure that environment, economics and sociality at the forefront of urban design. Promotion healthier streets has created new opportunities for social commercial interaction more inclusive outcomes. However, while most megacity share commonalities, in medium-density centres do not always same problems opportunities. Following London Healthy Street programme, interviews were conducted on four inner-suburban Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand streets. Findings highlight impacts changing demographics street functionality indicate scale can be a factor opportunity innovative user-friendly
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عنوان ژورنال: Urban Policy and Research
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0811-1146', '1476-7244']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2021.1978969