Maintaining human thermal comfort (HTC) is essential for pedestrians because people outside can be more susceptible to heat stress and heat stroke. Modification of street microclimates using tree canopy cover can provide important benefits to pedestrians, but how beneficial and under what circumstances is not clear. On sunny summer days, microclimatic measures were made in residential streets w...

This paper explores the diverse ways that children and young people negotiate their social identities and construct their life course trajectories on the street, based on ethnographic research with street children in Tanzania. Drawing on the concept of a ‘street career’, I show how differences of age, gender and ethnicity intersect with the time spent on the street, to influence young people’s ...

city is the most complicated and tangible creature of man. there is a critical mutual communicationbetween human and city; and the effect of one’ living environment is beyond question. graffiti is a new urbanphenomenon, which has drawn attention in light of its connection with protestation culture and street art. thanks tosymbolism of graffiti, the artists have added mysterious aspects to their...

abstract   background: economy, lack of welfare and social services, aids and civil war, and also substance abuse are predominant factors that attributes with street children.   method: 576 street children of 10-19 years were evaluated. data were gathered by demographic and substance use check list. theses check lists were designed by the researchers and included some simple question about type...

This article addresses the problem of urban street mapping from new high resolution satellite images. The proposed algorithm is divided in two sequential modules: a topologically correct graph of the street network is first extracted, and streets are then extracted as surface elements. The graph of the network is extracted by a following algorithm which minimizes a cost function. The surface ex...

OBJECTIVES To assess the contribution of street foods to the energy and nutrient needs of street food vendors. DESIGN A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted. Food intake for the street food vendors was measured using the 24 h recall method and a semi-quantitative FFQ with emphasis on the source of all foods consumed. SETTING Kampala, Jinja and Masaka districts, Uganda. SUBJECTS...

OBJECTIVE This is a study to evaluate friendships in latency street boys of Porto Alegre, RGS, Brazil. METHODS A sample of 30 latency street boys was compared with a sample of 51 latency boys living with their low income families, using the Cornell Interview of Peers and Friends (CIPF). RESULTS The two groups had a significantly different CIPF global scores, and the boys of the street group...