Measuring Urban Streetscapes for Livability
A Review of Approaches
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23367342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chester Harvey (0000-0002-5884-8317, University of Vermont), Lisa Aultman-Hall (0000-0002-8190-9640, University of Vermont) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 149-158 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Professional Geographer (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-0124 • E-ISSN: 1467-9272 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00330124.2015.1065546 |
| OpenAlex | W2173549862 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 63 |
| References cited | 46 |
Increasing interest in urban livability demands that geographers and planners more precisely define what constitutes a livable streetscape, a fundamental building block of urban places. Widespread examination of streetscape livability will require precise and efficient measurements of (1) physical characteristics at the spatial scale of individual streetscapes and (2) indicators of experiential quality based on revealed behavior or stated preference. This article reviews approaches to collecting both types of measurements, showing that innovative methods using geographic information systems (GIS), Internet-enabled surveys, and even social media could be useful complements to traditional qualitative methods for collecting streetscape measurements.
Cartography · Data science · Environmental planning · Experiential learning · Geography · Preference · Scale (ratio) · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis · Urban Green Space and Health · Urban Transport and Accessibility
Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change
Can Tourism Development Make Cities More Livable? Investigating 40 Cities in China
Walk Score® and Its Associations with Older Adults’ Health Behaviors and Outcomes
Mapping lived experience
Pedestrian–Environment Interactions
Do Socially Vulnerable Urban Populations Have Access to Walkable, Transit-Accessible Neighborhoods? A Nationwide Analysis of Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Quantifying the Spatial Ratio of Streets in Beijing Based on Street-View Images
Evaluation of Street Space Quality Using Streetscape Data
Developing an analytical framework for liveable streets in Shanghai
Transitional edges
Does restorativeness support liveliness on commercial streets
Liveable streets in Shanghai
Streetscapes as part of servicescapes
Assessing multiscale visual appearance characteristics of neighbourhoods using geographically weighted principal component analysis in Shenzhen, China
Can good microscale pedestrian streetscapes enhance the benefits of macroscale accessible urban form? An automated audit approach using Google street view images
Predicting perceptions of the built environment using GIS, satellite and street view image approaches
Modeling the Livable City
Covid-19 Cases and the Built Environment
Availability and Accessibility of Urban Green Spaces in a High-Density City
Multi‐Level Street‐Based Analysis of the Urban Fabric
Relative Variability in Streetscape Skeletons and Spatial Association
A Splash and a Crowd
How are Neighborhood and Street-Level Walkability Factors Associated with Walking Behaviors? A Big Data Approach Using Street View Images
How to harmonise variations in streetscape skeletons under zoning regulations
Comparison of precise and approximated building height
From the street to the metropolitan region
Coupled use of isovists and wavelets for street intersection pattern determination
Assessing street vitality using functional density as a proxy
Relative spatial variability in building heights and its spatial association
Urban modeling for streets using vector cellular automata
Statistical distribution of building lot depth
A framework of comparative urban trajectory analysis
Building height distribution under zoning regulations
Streetscape skeleton measurement and classification
Short video-driven deep perception for city imagery
Can ChatGPT-4o assess the perceptions of streetscape change? Evidence from Shanghai, China
Developing the urban comfort index
Generating citywide street cross-sections using aerial LiDAR and detailed street plan
Exploring perceptions of creativity and walkability in Omaha, NE
Optimizing housing price estimation through image segmentation and geographically weighted regression
Measuring Street Built Environments for Children’s Use
Non-linear impact of built environment on metro-bike integration from an eye-level perspective
The impacts of visual street environments on obesity
Examining the influence of neighborhood and street-level built environment on fitness jogging in Chengdu, China
Forgotten are the locals
Street Vitality
Inclusive streetscapes
Are walkable places tech incubators? Evidence from Nebraska’s ‘Silicon Prairie
Planning for Urban Livability
The way to measure and establish an emotional-based assessment of vertical urban complex
Do protected cycle lanes make cities more bike-friendly? Integrating street view images with deep learning techniques
Nonlinear and interaction effects of multi-dimensional street-level built environment features on urban vitality in Seoul
From complaints to insights
Systematic Social Observation at Scale
What makes a place liveable? An arts-based research conceptualisation of liveability
A framework for smart city streetscape (SCS) design guidelines for urban sustainability
Toward effective urban regeneration post-Covid-19
Augmented reality participatory platform
The city as an information system
The changing ethno-racial profile of ‘very walkable’ urban neighbourhoods in the US (2010–2020)
Contrasts of liveability and vulnerability analysed spatially and non-spatially in a historical Chinese context
Measuring nuanced walkability
"A Two-Layer Location Choice Model Reveals What's New in the "New Retail
Measuring Urban Design
Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale
Measuring the Built Environment for Physical Activity
Travel choices in pedestrian versus automobile oriented neighborhoods
The Irvine–Minnesota Inventory to Measure Built Environments
How Far, by Which Route and Why? A Spatial Analysis of Pedestrian Preference
Unpacking Walkability
The development and testing of an audit for the pedestrian environment
Identifying and Measuring Urban Design Qualities Related to Walkability
Property values, parks, and crime
Developing a reliable audit instrument to measure the physical environment for physical activity
Using Google Street View to Audit Neighborhood Environments
The Geography of Happiness
Measuring the Unmeasurable
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Travel demand and the 3Ds
Place and placelessness
Space and place
Sense of Place as an Attitude
Role of the built environment on mode choice decisions
Urban Liveability
Using Google Earth to conduct a neighborhood audit
Developing context-sensitive livability indicators for transportation planning
Pedestrian environment and route choice
Happiness is greater in natural environments
Sense of place in the neighborhood, in locations of urban revitalization
Urban Liveability in Context
New urbanism and housing values
Sense of place
Travel and the Built Environment
The Urban Project and Its Impact on Sense of Place
Developing a framework for assessment of the environmental determinants of walking and cycling
Living Room
| Unique citing works | 63 |
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| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 63 |