People -both residents and visitors- have certain images of streets alleys Kagurazaka. For example, Kagurazaka Street, the main street area, is vibrant with many shops restaurants. The historic are narrow stone-paved, surrounded by black wood-board wall, quiet. However, quantity analysis streetscape in Kagurazaka, from pedestrian views, not been done. Such study important to recognize share cur...

visibility is an important factor of environmental quality that has various influences on the quality of neighborhood. this paper aimed to find the relationship between urban form and visual quality. a public space with a spatial configuration in one of bushehr city's neighborhoods was selected as the case study. bushehr city is surrounded by urban development and the sea. compact urban sp...

BACKGROUND Regular physical activity can help prevent chronic diseases, yet only half of US adults meet national physical activity guidelines. One barrier to physical activity is a lack of safe places to be active, such as bike paths and sidewalks. Complete Streets, streets designed to enable safe access for all users, can help provide safe places for activity. COMMUNITY CONTEXT This communit...

The eighteenth century was the age of enlightenment. In that partofitwhich concerns us this evening between 1740 and 1780, we find a generation of men self-poised, self-approved, freed from the disturbing passions of the past and not yet troubled by the different world which would soon be upon them as a result of the Industrial and the French Revolutions. It was a moment of peace between the re...

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Monika Kopacz, Daniel J. Jacob, Daven Henze, Colette L. Heald, David G. Streets, Qiang Zhang 1 Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 3 Center for Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 4 Decision and Information Sciences Division, Argonne National...

Background: Ciclovias, known in the U.S. as open streets initiatives, close streets to vehicles to increase open space and physical activity opportunities for local communities. In San Francisco, California, the open streets initiative known as Sunday Streets, was founded in 2008 to promote bicycle use in neighborhoods most underserved for recreational resources and experiencing higher than ave...