A review of simulation-based urban form generation and optimization for energy-driven urban design

Z Shi, JA Fonseca, A Schlueter - Building and Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper first defines the concept of energy-driven urban design. It aims to reveal
synergies and trade-offs that may arise while designing urban areas for better energy …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of buildings' physical characteristics on urban network centrality

MA Amen - Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban centrality is critical for comprehending cities' most significant locations.
Conventionally, urbanists analyzed urban centrality by transforming urban spatial networks …

Measuring daily accessed street greenery: A human-scale approach for informing better urban planning practices

Y Ye, D Richards, Y Lu, X Song, Y Zhuang… - Landscape and Urban …, 2019 - Elsevier
The public benefits of visible street greenery have been well recognised in a growing
literature. Nevertheless, this issue was rare to be included into urban greenery and planning …

How block density and typology affect urban vitality: An exploratory analysis in Shenzhen, China

Y Ye, D Li, X Liu - Urban Geography, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Recent urban transformations in China have led to critical reflections on the low-quality
urban expansion in the previous decades and called for the making of vital and lively urban …

[HTML][HTML] How gender differences and perceptions of safety shape urban mobility in Southeast Asia

I Hidayati, W Tan, C Yamu - … research part F: traffic psychology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite numerous studies on how gender differences affect transport mobility choices and
perception of safety, there has been little emphasis on the influence of spatial and socio …

Space syntax has come of age: A bibliometric review from 1976 to 2023

AA Mohamed… - Journal of Planning …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite numerous reviews of space syntax research, there has been little emphasis on the
field's main characteristics and tendencies, including publication trends, geographical …

Spatial distributive effects of public green space and COVID-19 infection in London

J Pan, R Bardhan, Y ** - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2021 - Elsevier
While public green spaces (PGS) are opined to be central in the pandemic recovery, higher
accessibility to PGS also mean a higher risk of infection spread from the raised possibility of …

The influence of social interactions on the behavioral patterns of the people in urban spaces (case study: The pedestrian zone of Rasht Municipality Square, Iran)

R Askarizad, H Safari - Cities, 2020 - Elsevier
This study attempted to investigate the influence of social interactions on behavioral patterns
of the people in urban spaces. Accordingly, a combination of empirical axial line and …

Exploring the role of configurational accessibility of alleyways on facilitating wayfinding transportation within the organic street network systems

R Askarizad, PJL Daudén, C Garau - Transport Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the significant role of alleyways in urban spatial configuration and accessibility as
critical structures of urban infrastructure, there remains a noticeable gap in understanding …

Limits of space syntax for urban design: Axiality, scale and sinuosity

E Pafka, K Dovey… - … and Planning B: Urban …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Space syntax analysis of the city as a movement economy has made major contributions to
our understanding of the spatial structure of cities, particularly the importance of a map** …