Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory
and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear …

As an essential component of urban public spaces, urban streets play a crucial role in
sha** cities and promoting urban sustainability. This article focuses on innovative streets …

Houses with better street design are found to relate to a price premium. Prior studies mainly
present the street quality using objective indicators like tree counts and distance to parks …

What exactly is meant by the term 'walkability'? In professional, research and public debates
the term is used to refer to several quite different kinds of phenomena. Some discussions …

The built environment characteristics associated with walkability range from neighborhood-
level urban form factors to street-level urban design factors. However, many existing …

Although it is widely known that quality of street space plays a vital role in promoting urban
vibrancy, there is still no consensus on how to quantitatively measure it for a large scale …

It is of great significance both in theory and in practice to propose an efficient approach to
approximating visual walkability given urban residents' growing leisure needs. Recent …

One major limitation currently with studying street level urban design qualities for walkability
is the often inconsistent and unreliable measures of streetscape features across different …

Given the present size of modern cities, it is beyond the perceptual capacity of most people
to develop a good knowledge about the qualities of the urban space at every street corner …

The measurement of urban streetscape quality facilitates the identification of street
regeneration. The emerging Street View image and semantic segmentation techniques have …