The Board Papers
Agora, cities for people: a methodological approach to analyse and investigate capital routes in European cities
Kayvan Karimi, Associate Director, Space Syntax Limited
Summary: Agora, Cities for People is a European-funded project that aims to develop an audit methodology for European cities to identify, analyse and re-design Capital Routes: the distinct strategic urban transects that incorporate shared concerns of all types of activity in the city.1 One of the main objectives of the project is to create a vision for the whole city through the study and analysis of a representative urban micro-cosmos. The project starts with identification and analysis of the Capital Routes and goes on to record the urban design components, observe the patterns of human activity, and develop strategic design proposals and urban design guidelines for the Capital Routes. Space Syntax2 has been defined as the core methodology for this research, which is used by project partners to study their Capital Routes and to store, represent and analyse physical and functional data, and correlate them with other layers of data gathered during the course of the project. This multi-layered analysis will be used for the strategic design of the Capital Routes in cities. This paper focuses on the first stage of the study, the comparative morphological analysis of the four cities of Barcelona, London, Malmo and Utrecht, using the spatial analysis methods of Space Syntax. The paper explains the challenges involved in producing the ... More
Ambient air quality and walking in the city
Ole Raaschou-Nielsen,
Summary: Employment record 1988-89 Consultant to Stadsingeniorens Direktorat, Kobenhavns Kommune. Investigation of health problems of streetworkers in relation to air pollution from traffic. 1990-93 Consultant to Jord- og Betonarbejdernes fagforening, Kbenhavn. Exposure assessments in industrial injury insurance. 1990-93 Industrial hygienist. Occupational Health Service Center, Municipality of Copenhagen and Occupational Health Service Center, Helsingør. 1993-01 Research fellow, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society. 2001- Acting head of research programme Environment & Cancer, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society. 2002- Head of research programme Environment & Cancer, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society. ... More
An experiment of making amenity map in urban area -part 1
Case study of Chiba-shi in Japan | Ikutaroh SAITOH and Toshio KITAHARA
Summary: Describes the method used to prepare a flagged map showing areas of amenity and disamenity for walking in the towns of Benten and Mstunami in Japan. ... More
An experiment of making an amenity map in a rural area
- case study of Hachijo, Nagahama in Japan | Ikutaroh SAITOH and Toshio KITAHARA Department of Urban Environment Systems Chiba University
Summary: In recent years, community design which aims to improve the living environment with citizen participation has become popular in Japan. Amenity is the concept that influences the quality of life. Improvement of amenity can be improvement of the living environment. Grasping information from map that points out amenity places is an opportunity to reconsider of the living environment. It will also a way to reinforce a community. This submission aims to make an amenity map and to grasp about amenity places and dis-amenity places in a region. Dis-amenity is a counter concept of amenity and means discomfort, unsatisfactory and so on. Amenity map indicates amenity places and dis-amenity places in a region. Our method of making an amenity map is (1)Walking around a local area, (2)Checking amenity and dis-amenity places, (3)Making a flag map, (4)Making an Amenity map. ... More
An objective method for star rating road crossings on school walking routes
Bruce Corben, David Logan, Jennie Oxley, Kirstan Corben and Jenny Boulet
Summary: This pilot study demonstrated that it is feasible to create a practical tool to objectively rate the safety performance of individual pedestrian road crossing points. ... More
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