Livability is the ultimate goal of city development. However, the question of whether the changing pattern of a city’s livability follows a certain rule or not has seldom been argued. To address the question, three cities, including New York, Tokyo, and Shanghai are selected for case studies. Based on a proposed assessment framework, the long-term trend and determinants of three cities’ livabil...

While the environments of more and more Chinese cities are becoming less polluted following successful introduction of pollution control and environment renovation measures in recent years, more attention is now being given to the livability of cities. However, these successes are often not quantifiable and are not universally recognized. Based on a survey of globallyrecognized urban livability...

Livability indicators and assessments are critical to promoting campus sustainability livability. Despite the various indicator frameworks local initiatives aimed at attaining sustainability, livability in Middle East scarce. An extensive literature search was used this paper obtain best indicators, Delphi method reach consensus using a panel of experts fields The determining were identified ca...

extended abstract 1. introduction the peri-urban villages are scenes of the formation, growth, and the continuity of opportunities and threats affecting the environmental quality and the way of supplying the needs of residents. thus, assessing the livability of these villages as a new concept is of great importance in the literature of settlement planning. the study areas in this study include ...

the cities are home to half of the people who live on the planet earth. they stimulate economic growth and cultural prosperity, but they are also the center of pollution and poverty. therefore, the livability of cities, in particular urban distressed areas, has always been one of the issues and challenges facing thinkers in different fields of urban management. however, the planning to improve ...

CONTEXT Physical inactivity is a major public health problem. While individual (eg, attitudes, values, beliefs) and social (eg, social support) factors play a role, access to an activity-safe local environment can have a significant influence. Environments that include accessible opportunities for physical activity, a component of livability, require cooperation from many sectors including nonp...

introduction according to available statistics, nearly half of the world population is living in cities and there is expectance of increasing in the coming decades. urban areas are the main centers of economic, social and political growth in every country that have prove itself as the most attractive places to build wealth, work, creativity and innovation. but these areas face with important ch...