Urban Residents Preferences on Urban Environmental Elements

Visual Preferences in Urban Signscapes

This research looked at the role of sign obtrusiveness and complexity in the perception and evaluation of urban signscapes. It obtained independent scores for features of 19 signscapes. One group of 30 persons judged physical features of 19 color photographs of retail sign scenes. One opportunity sample of 56 persons sorted the scenes into groups and then scored the groups for preference. A ran...

Income Inequality in Urban China: A Comparative Analysis between Urban Residents and Rural-Urban Migrants

Urban environmental health.

In 1983, Karlsson et al. described a genetic polymorphism associated with human urinary high molecular weight glyco-proteins. In this, four components with different mobilities in sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide (SDS PAGE) gels were identified by their reaction with radioiodinated peanut lectin and each individual was found to exhibit one or two bands. Familial studies showed that the fo...

Informal Urban Green Space: Residents’ Perception, Use, and Management Preferences across Four Major Japanese Shrinking Cities

Abstract: Urban residents’ health depends on green infrastructure to cope with climate change. Shrinking cities could utilize vacant land to provide more green space, but declining tax revenues preclude new park development—a situation pronounced in Japan, where some cities are projected to shrink by over ten percent, but lack green space. Could informal urban green spaces (IGS; vacant lots, st...

Environmental factors and urban crime

Urban Environment planning can prevent abnormal behaviors, crime and felony in urban places by identifying effective local features and environmental conditions, along with other actions, so that the felon would have much less opportunities for committing criminal and unlawful acts in urban areas. This article is part of the outcomes of a study project called “formulation of environmental crite...