This study aims to develop rules of thumb for the financial conditions city livability. These will provide a practical guide local government leaders managing finances on how realize livable city. identifies three indicators that characterize city’s livability, namely its operating capacity, flexibility, and commitment maintain services. The standards each these is 1.20 times capacity ratio, 0....

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact urban governance on public sector performance by observing practices Taipei City. shows that since 2014, City has promoted in a performance-oriented manner, and after 8 years efforts, it achieved overall synergy an international metropolis. practice takes becoming livable city as its vision goal, uses Balanced Scorecard implementation tool. res...

China, like many countries, is under great pressure to reduce climate change and adapt current situations while simultaneously undertaking economic development transformation. This study takes advantage of opportunities provides a new concept mode urban services in order address change. Eighteen indicators based on climate-related variables were used provide an assessment, the form index, how l...

Streetscape can be considered as a term “which used to clarify and explain the street's built-in basic structure, also it is known design of visual appeal quality street effect. A good tool for improving urban establishing feeling place streetscape. People's requirements public areas have changed internet usage has continued expand.. The numbers people who use cars increased lot in Riyadh city....

In 2004, the National Council on Disability (NCD) commissioned the Center for Home Care Policy and Research to research and prepare a report on the topic of "livable communities" for adults with disabilities. The following is a summary of the major findings in the report and the priority action steps that communities should take to become more livable for people with disabilities. The report wa...

Can you imagine a city that feels, understands, and cares about your wellbeing? Future cities will reshape human behavior in countless ways. New strategies and models are required for future urban spaces to properly respond to human activity, environmental conditions, and market dynamics. Persuasive urban systems will play an important role in making cities more livable and resource-efficient b...

We propose to use the funds as a seed grant. The proposed research will provide the preliminary work necessary to submit a major funding proposal. The overall aim is the identification of the best housing relocation policy in terms of the achievement of livable lives. To accomplish this goal we will estimate a model of location choice and models of neighborhood effects using data from the "movi...

The following is a transcript of a talk in Center for Cities & Schools speaker’s series. Housed in the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) at Berkeley and affiliated with the Graduate School of Education (GSE) and the Department of City and Regional Planning (DCRP), The Center for Cities & Schools is committed to bridging the fields of education and urban policy to create equitab...

Within the past decade there has been a desire in many urban areas of the United States to create more “livable” communities. One direction of thinking in this “new urbanism” promotes the revival of traditionally styled land-use developments in which people live, work, and shop all within a pedestrian-oriented community. While such communities are common in large urban areas and small rural cit...