Ved Mehta
Biographic Data
| ID | 742725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ved Mehta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ved |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehta |
| SIGNATURE | MEHTA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0220-3149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Designing for sociability and the erosion of publicness
During the pandemic, several cities transformed their commercial streets to accommodate the consumption of food and beverages and to make those pedestrian-friendly. Many have made the makeshift modifications permanent. This paper examines the transformation of streets in Over-the-Rhine neighbourhood in Cincinnati, Ohio in the US to assess the changes in sociability and publicness from the time before the pandemic to the present. Findings show tha…
Openness as an ideology for urban design
For urban design, as a young discipline wedged between the built environment fields and social sciences with ambiguous and multifarious boundaries, actors, and roles, it is a good practice to regul
Suburban camouflage in urban neighbourhoods
Centre-city neighbourhoods is where residents expect a diversity of residents and an active social life, along with numerous amenities. This study investigates the relationship between the transforming morphology of Over-the-Rhine – a historic centre-city neighbourhood in Cincinnati, Ohio – and its urban social life. Detailed observations and morphological analyses of four new residential projects reveal that typologies that on the face appear ur…
Does restorativeness support liveliness on commercial streets
The role of restorativeness in attracting and retaining people on commercial streets has been under-researched. To examine this topic, this convergent parallel mixed methods study was conducted on four commercial streets in Brazil. It included a quantitative evaluation of correlations between a set of microscale aspects of commercial streets and liveliness, and a qualitative thematic analysis of users’ experiences informed by the Attention Restor…
Quality of Public Spaces in Vernacular Settlements
Kotagede is a traditional residential area designated as a cultural heritage area. The community is currently developing as a dense residential area and this is limiting the existence of public open spaces despite their importance to social interaction public activities. Therefore, this study was conducted to discuss the quality of public open spaces in Kotagede with a focus on the use and users, accessibility, amenities and furniture, comfort an…
The Emerging Impacts of Covid-19 on the Relationship between Children, Youth and Environments
The Emerging Impacts of COVID-19 on the Relationship between Children, Youth and Environments Vikas Mehta, Victoria Carr, Rhonda Douglas Brown, and Leslie Kochanowski It will be years before we know the real impacts of COVID-19 on children and youth, and society in general. From our current observations, measures and assessment, we know that the pandemic has had a drastic impact on the lifestyles of children and youth, their learning, mental heal…
Main street commons
The restorative potential of commercial streets
With cities continuing to grow at rapid rates across the globe, daily exposure to traffic, noise, crowding, information overload and other stressors have exacerbated urban dwellers’ need for restoration. Yet, how to enhance the restorative potential of urban environments remains a vastly understudied research topic. This article explores the perceived restorative potential of commercial streets in the Boston metropolitan area (US) and Belo Horizo…
The new proxemics
Social distancing measures during COVID-19 have altered the use of space. With the closure of places of work, learning, leisure, consumption, and more, the pandemic has limited our territories and public life. Yet, residents living in mid- to low-density places are experiencing their neighbourhoods differently. They are repurposing residential streets, sidewalks, parking lots, and other spaces and transforming neighbourhood space for active livin…
Companion to Public Space
Public Space and Covid-19
COVID-19 has hit cities hard. With the closure of places of work and learning, third places, places of leisure and consumption, and more, the pandemic has diminished our territories and contracted public space and public life. But a keen observation reveals a more nuanced picture. In many neighborhoods, an interesting phenomenon of reclaiming much neighborhood space for public use is evident. The repurposing of residential streets, sidewalks, par…
Revisiting Lively Streets
Given the investment in streets, it is imperative for planners and urban designers to determine what makes streets social places. Defining street liveliness as stationary social behavior and duration of stay, we present an empirical longitudinal study extending previous research findings. Using observations and visual surveys, regression analysis and factor analysis, we study liveliness and determine its correlation with street characteristics. E…
Mapping Controversies in Architecture
Mapping Controversies in Architecture." Journal of Urban Technology, 21(3), pp. 108–109 Notes on ReviewerVikas Mehta PhD, is an associate professor and the Fruth/Gemini Chair at the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. His work focuses on the role of design and planning in creating a more responsive, equitable, stimulating and supportive enviroment
The Street
Received the Environmental Design Research Association's 2014 Place Book Award Shortlisted for the UDG Francis Tibbalds Book Award 2014 Good cities are places of social encounter. Creating public spaces that encourage social behavior in our cities and neighborhoods is an important goal of city design. One of the cardinal roles of the street, as public space, is to provide a setting for sociability. How do we make sociable streets? This book shows…
Evaluating Public Space
Public space plays an important role in sustaining the public realm. There is a renewed interest in public space with a growing belief that while modern societies no longer depend on the town square or the piazza for basic needs, good public space is required for the social and psychological health of modern communities. New public spaces are emerging around the world and old public space typologies are being retrofitted to contemporary needs. Go…
Third Places and the Social Life of Streets
Urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg defines a third place as a place of refuge other than the home or workplace where people can regularly visit and commune with friends, neighbors, coworkers, and even strangers. Because little is known about the place-based physical qualities of third places that support sociability and place attachment, this article examines how four urban design characteristics distinguish third-place businesses from other busines…
Look Closely and You Will See, Listen Carefully and You Will Hear
Streets represent a significant part of the public space in urban areas and cater to our functional, social and leisure needs. The biggest competitive advantage of the neighbourhood commercial street is its ability to support social interaction as a part of the daily routine. Numerous characteristics have been previously associated with good urban design of the street. This paper emphasizes the need for researchers to view the experience of the s…
Lively Streets
Increasingly, scholars suggest thinking of the street as a social space, rather than just a channel for movement. Studies that address the relationships between social behavior and environmental quality of the street tend to separate the study of physical features from land uses and hence do not address the interrelationships between behavioral patterns and physical features of the street and its sociability. This article is an empirical examinat…
The politics of sanitation
The Mosque and the Temple
Fly andthe fly-bottle
A Family Affair
The New India
Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles
I Subtler and More Lasting Shapes Bapu Relics and Monuments Editors, Biographers, and Bibliographers Family Benefactors II In the Steps of the Autobiographer and His Biographers Banya Origins Kathiawari Boy Rajkot Student in England Banister Community Servant Satyagrabi in South Africa Satyagrahi in India Constructive Worker Martyr III The Company They Keep Non-violence: Brahmacharya and Goaes Milk Revolution: The Constructive Programme and Its M…
Portrait of India
BOOK ONE 1- Forbidden to Come to the Shore The Guide Son et Lumiere Birth Control College Girls II: Native Wood-Notes All India Radio Music Festival The Two Systems and Voice Pupil Master The Sacred Handbook of the Arts Jazz in Bombay III: The Sacred River of the Hindus The Ageless Festival The Loins of the Earth are Betwixt the Ganga and the Yamuna From the Sindhu The Conuningling Strewns IV: The Holy Hair of the Muslims The Vale of Kashmir The …
Evaluating Public Space
Public space plays an important role in sustaining the public realm. There is a renewed interest in public space with a growing belief that while modern societies no longer depend on the town square or the piazza for basic needs, good public space is required for the social and psychological health of modern communities. New public spaces are emerging around the world and old public space typologies are being retrofitted to contemporary needs. Go…
Lively Streets
Increasingly, scholars suggest thinking of the street as a social space, rather than just a channel for movement. Studies that address the relationships between social behavior and environmental quality of the street tend to separate the study of physical features from land uses and hence do not address the interrelationships between behavioral patterns and physical features of the street and its sociability. This article is an empirical examinat…
Revisiting Lively Streets
Given the investment in streets, it is imperative for planners and urban designers to determine what makes streets social places. Defining street liveliness as stationary social behavior and duration of stay, we present an empirical longitudinal study extending previous research findings. Using observations and visual surveys, regression analysis and factor analysis, we study liveliness and determine its correlation with street characteristics. E…
The restorative potential of commercial streets
With cities continuing to grow at rapid rates across the globe, daily exposure to traffic, noise, crowding, information overload and other stressors have exacerbated urban dwellers’ need for restoration. Yet, how to enhance the restorative potential of urban environments remains a vastly understudied research topic. This article explores the perceived restorative potential of commercial streets in the Boston metropolitan area (US) and Belo Horizo…
The Mosque and the Temple
Walking the Indian Streets
Face to Face
Portrait of India
BOOK ONE 1- Forbidden to Come to the Shore The Guide Son et Lumiere Birth Control College Girls II: Native Wood-Notes All India Radio Music Festival The Two Systems and Voice Pupil Master The Sacred Handbook of the Arts Jazz in Bombay III: The Sacred River of the Hindus The Ageless Festival The Loins of the Earth are Betwixt the Ganga and the Yamuna From the Sindhu The Conuningling Strewns IV: The Holy Hair of the Muslims The Vale of Kashmir The …
Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles
I Subtler and More Lasting Shapes Bapu Relics and Monuments Editors, Biographers, and Bibliographers Family Benefactors II In the Steps of the Autobiographer and His Biographers Banya Origins Kathiawari Boy Rajkot Student in England Banister Community Servant Satyagrabi in South Africa Satyagrahi in India Constructive Worker Martyr III The Company They Keep Non-violence: Brahmacharya and Goaes Milk Revolution: The Constructive Programme and Its M…
The New India
A Family Affair
Fly andthe fly-bottle
The Mosque and the Temple
The politics of sanitation
Lively Streets
Increasingly, scholars suggest thinking of the street as a social space, rather than just a channel for movement. Studies that address the relationships between social behavior and environmental quality of the street tend to separate the study of physical features from land uses and hence do not address the interrelationships between behavioral patterns and physical features of the street and its sociability. This article is an empirical examinat…
Look Closely and You Will See, Listen Carefully and You Will Hear
Streets represent a significant part of the public space in urban areas and cater to our functional, social and leisure needs. The biggest competitive advantage of the neighbourhood commercial street is its ability to support social interaction as a part of the daily routine. Numerous characteristics have been previously associated with good urban design of the street. This paper emphasizes the need for researchers to view the experience of the s…
Third Places and the Social Life of Streets
Urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg defines a third place as a place of refuge other than the home or workplace where people can regularly visit and commune with friends, neighbors, coworkers, and even strangers. Because little is known about the place-based physical qualities of third places that support sociability and place attachment, this article examines how four urban design characteristics distinguish third-place businesses from other busines…
The Street
Received the Environmental Design Research Association's 2014 Place Book Award Shortlisted for the UDG Francis Tibbalds Book Award 2014 Good cities are places of social encounter. Creating public spaces that encourage social behavior in our cities and neighborhoods is an important goal of city design. One of the cardinal roles of the street, as public space, is to provide a setting for sociability. How do we make sociable streets? This book shows…
Evaluating Public Space
Public space plays an important role in sustaining the public realm. There is a renewed interest in public space with a growing belief that while modern societies no longer depend on the town square or the piazza for basic needs, good public space is required for the social and psychological health of modern communities. New public spaces are emerging around the world and old public space typologies are being retrofitted to contemporary needs. Go…
Mapping Controversies in Architecture
Mapping Controversies in Architecture." Journal of Urban Technology, 21(3), pp. 108–109 Notes on ReviewerVikas Mehta PhD, is an associate professor and the Fruth/Gemini Chair at the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. His work focuses on the role of design and planning in creating a more responsive, equitable, stimulating and supportive enviroment
Revisiting Lively Streets
Given the investment in streets, it is imperative for planners and urban designers to determine what makes streets social places. Defining street liveliness as stationary social behavior and duration of stay, we present an empirical longitudinal study extending previous research findings. Using observations and visual surveys, regression analysis and factor analysis, we study liveliness and determine its correlation with street characteristics. E…
The new proxemics
Social distancing measures during COVID-19 have altered the use of space. With the closure of places of work, learning, leisure, consumption, and more, the pandemic has limited our territories and public life. Yet, residents living in mid- to low-density places are experiencing their neighbourhoods differently. They are repurposing residential streets, sidewalks, parking lots, and other spaces and transforming neighbourhood space for active livin…
Companion to Public Space
Public Space and Covid-19
COVID-19 has hit cities hard. With the closure of places of work and learning, third places, places of leisure and consumption, and more, the pandemic has diminished our territories and contracted public space and public life. But a keen observation reveals a more nuanced picture. In many neighborhoods, an interesting phenomenon of reclaiming much neighborhood space for public use is evident. The repurposing of residential streets, sidewalks, par…
The restorative potential of commercial streets
With cities continuing to grow at rapid rates across the globe, daily exposure to traffic, noise, crowding, information overload and other stressors have exacerbated urban dwellers’ need for restoration. Yet, how to enhance the restorative potential of urban environments remains a vastly understudied research topic. This article explores the perceived restorative potential of commercial streets in the Boston metropolitan area (US) and Belo Horizo…
The Emerging Impacts of Covid-19 on the Relationship between Children, Youth and Environments
The Emerging Impacts of COVID-19 on the Relationship between Children, Youth and Environments Vikas Mehta, Victoria Carr, Rhonda Douglas Brown, and Leslie Kochanowski It will be years before we know the real impacts of COVID-19 on children and youth, and society in general. From our current observations, measures and assessment, we know that the pandemic has had a drastic impact on the lifestyles of children and youth, their learning, mental heal…
Main street commons
Quality of Public Spaces in Vernacular Settlements
Kotagede is a traditional residential area designated as a cultural heritage area. The community is currently developing as a dense residential area and this is limiting the existence of public open spaces despite their importance to social interaction public activities. Therefore, this study was conducted to discuss the quality of public open spaces in Kotagede with a focus on the use and users, accessibility, amenities and furniture, comfort an…
Does restorativeness support liveliness on commercial streets
The role of restorativeness in attracting and retaining people on commercial streets has been under-researched. To examine this topic, this convergent parallel mixed methods study was conducted on four commercial streets in Brazil. It included a quantitative evaluation of correlations between a set of microscale aspects of commercial streets and liveliness, and a qualitative thematic analysis of users’ experiences informed by the Attention Restor…
Openness as an ideology for urban design
For urban design, as a young discipline wedged between the built environment fields and social sciences with ambiguous and multifarious boundaries, actors, and roles, it is a good practice to regul
Engineering (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Architectural engineering (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Civil engineering (8 works) · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Place Attachment and Urban Studies (7 works)