The understanding of space use in cities differs due to variations in planning experiences across the developed and developing world. This paper focuses on equal access to spaces with infrastructure and services that meet the residential, travel, commercial and leisure needs of women and men at neighborhood to city level. Triangulated data from Kampala city, Uganda’s capital, showed that women ...

1 Program in Physical Therapy, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Department of Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA 2Department of Physical Therapy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA 3Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA 4Department of Rehabilitation Sciences,...

Due to climate change issues, fossil fuel depletion and increasing economic pressure, "smart" cities will have significantly altered physical, social and economic systems, built upon smart infrastructure. Key infrastructure is energy, with focus on electricity. The paradigm of physical, data transfer and information flow layers of the smart city power grid is shown. Challenges of the new urban ...

Fixed cycle traffic lights decrease the throughput of traffic at intersections. Adaptive traffic light approaches dynamically change the cycle of traffic lights according to current traffic, these approaches usually improves traffic. However, it costs many resources to maintain all physical traffic lights in a city, and conventional adaptive traffic light approaches were designed for physical t...

1 Program in Physical Therapy, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Department of Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA 2Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA 3Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium 4Department of Physical Thera...

BACKGROUND In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded Play Across Boston to address disparities in access to physical activity facilities and programs for Boston, Mass, inner-city youths. CONTEXT Local stakeholders worked with the Harvard School of Public Health Prevention Research Center and Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society to impro...

This paper summarises the latest theories in the field of space syntax. It opens with a discussion of the relationship between the form of urban grids and the process of how cities are formed by human activity; this is done by a comprehensive review of space syntax theory from its starting point in the 1970s. The paper goes on to present research into how cities balance the micro-economic facto...