Delivering Community Well-Being from the Happy City Concept: A Practical Approach to Urban Planning and Design

2016 ◽  
pp. 435-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tzu-Yuan Stessa Chao ◽  
Shao-Kuan Liu ◽  
Balint Kalman ◽  
Hsin-Chieh Cindy Lu ◽  
Miaoqi Cai
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Practical Approach ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

scholarly journals Public health and well-being in public open spaces through climate responsive urban planning and design

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Active Lifestyles ◽  
Controlled Environments ◽  
Public Open Spaces

The urban fabric enables people to move between climate-controlled environments (such as home and indoors work) and non-controlled ones (such as parks and beaches). The planning and design of urban spaces, on the other hand, largely define the way we live and affect our health as it can, for instance, promote or hinder active lifestyles and social cohesion (Owen, 2009; Speck, 2012). But even when the cities have compact built form and provide key features and infrastructure conducive to healthy lifestyles, local climate can indirectly dictate and restrict the use of public open spaces if the weather is prohibitive (Tavares & Swaffield, 2017). Climate responsive urban planning and design is, therefore, key to secure a healthy urban lifestyle (Barton, Thompson, Burgess, & Grant, 2015; Kent et al., 2017; Mouratidis, 2017) especially in light of frequency and severity of extreme weather events.

scholarly journals Walkability as the key element of urban planning within the Healthy Cities concept (systematic review)

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 294-300
Author(s):  
Nadezhda A. Vosheva ◽  
Natalya N. Kamynina ◽  
Ekaterina O. Korotkova ◽  
Dmitriy V. Voshev
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
World Health ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Healthy Cities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

The purpose of the study. The purpose of this work is the exploration and generalization of scientific researches on walkability to determine its advantages as an element of public policy in human-centered cities. Over the past fifty years, the world community has actively discussed the issue of healthy and sustainable urban development planning, which has gained particular relevance with the recent World Health Organization publication of the “Healthy Cities: An Effective Approach to a Rapidly Changing World” concept (2020). One of the Healthy Cities approach goals is to promote healthy urban planning and design centered on human well-being (unlike prevalent in the past vehicle orientation), and the main component of such planning is pedestrianization or walkability. The systematic reviews and meta-analyses reporting method (PRISMA) were used in the review. The search was carried out in the bibliographic databases Elibrary, PubMed, MEDLINE, Scopus, Google Scholar. The study of the structure, types, and relationship between pedestrianization and the type of urban planning revealed the global advantages of creating walkable areas, such as maintaining the physical, mental and social health of citizens, increasing social capital, and improving the city’s ecological and economic atmosphere. Conclusion. Thus the promoting walkability was concluded to be a public policy as a relatively simple and highly effective way to benefit in the short, medium, and long term. This fact ultimately makes pedestrianization one of the most important tools for healthy urban planning and design.

scholarly journals Review: Improving the Impact of Plant Science on Urban Planning and Design

Buildings ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Wootton-Beard ◽  
Yangang Xing ◽  
Raghavalu Durai Prabhakaran ◽  
Paul Robson ◽  
Maurice Bosch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Plant Science ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
The Impact

Comment on “The study of urban metabolism and its applications to urban planning and design” by Kennedy et al. (2011)

2012 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 184-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Lin ◽  
Min Liu ◽  
Feixiong Luo ◽  
Kai Wang ◽  
Qiuzhuo Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Metabolism ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

scholarly journals A state-of-the-art review of built environment information modelling (BeIM)

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1638-1654 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.H.M. Tah ◽  
A.H. Oti ◽  
F.H. Abanda
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Data File ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Engineering Construction ◽  
Information Modelling ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Building Information ◽  
3D City Modelling

AbstractElements that constitute the built environment are vast and so are the independent systems developed to model its various aspects. Many of these systems have been developed under various assumptions and approaches to execute functions that are distinct, complementary or sometimes similar. Furthermore, these systems are ever increasing in number and often assume similar nomenclatures and acronyms, thereby exacerbating the challenges of understanding their peculiar functions, definitions and differences. The current societal demand to improve sustainability performance through collaboration as well as whole-system and through-life thinking is driving the need to integrate independent systems associated with different aspects and scales of the built environment to deliver smart solutions and services that improve the well-being of citizens. The contemporary object-oriented digitization of real-world elements appears to provide a leeway for amalgamating the modelling systems of various domains in the built environment which we termed as built environment information modelling (BeIM). These domains include architecture, engineering, construction as well as urban planning and design. Applications such as building information modelling, geographic information systems and 3D city modelling systems are now being integrated for city modelling purposes. The various works directed at integrating these systems are examined, revealing that current research efforts on integration fall into three categories: (1) data/file conversion systems, (2) semantic mapping systems and (3) the hybrid of both. The review outcome suggests that good knowledge of these domains and how their respective systems operate is vital to pursuing holistic systems integration in the built environment.

scholarly journals Extended Function Analysis of Urban Planning and Design Based on Automatic Extraction Algorithm of Closed Area Boundary

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Xifeng Mi
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Automatic Extraction ◽  
Boundary Extraction ◽  
Closed Area ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Extraction Algorithm ◽  
Urban Planning And Design

With the continuous development of social economy, the expansion of cities often leads to the disorderly utilization of land resources and even waste. In view of these limitations and requirements, this paper introduces the automatic extraction algorithm of closed area boundary, combs the requirements of urban boundary extraction involved in urban planning and design, and uses the technology of geospatial analysis to carry out spatial analysis practice from three angles, so as to realize the expansion of functional analysis of urban planning and design and improve the efficiency and rationality of urban planning. The simulation results show that the automatic extraction algorithm of closed area boundary is effective and can support the functional analysis of urban planning and design expansion.

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