Measuring Urban Design
Measuring Urban Design
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In recent years, many ""walking audit instruments"" have been developed to measure qualities like building height, block length, and sidewalk width. But while easily quantifiable, these physical features do not fully capture the experience of walking down a street. In contrast, this book addresses broad perceptions of street environments. It provides operational definitions and measurement protocols of five intangible qualities of urban design, specifically imageability, visual enclosure, human scale, transparency, and complexity.
The result is a reliable field survey instrument grounded in constructs from architecture, urban design, and planning. Readers will also find a case study applying the instrument to 588 streets in New York City, which shows that it can be used effectively to measure the built environment's impact on social, psychological, and physical well-being. Finally, readers will find illustrated, step-by-step instructions to use the instrument and a scoring sheet for easy calculation of urban design quality scores.
For the first time, researchers, designers, planners, and lay people have an empirically tested tool to measure those elusive qualities that make us want to take a stroll. Urban policymakers and planners as well as students in urban policy, design, and environmental health will find the tools and methods in Measuring Urban Design especially useful.
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<div><br/><div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-ii' class='sequence-1'>About Island Press</div><br/><div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-v' class='sequence-2'>Title Page</div><br/><div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-vi' class='sequence-3'>Copyright Page</div><br/><div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-vii' class='sequence-4'>Contents</div><br/><div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-ix' class='sequence-5'>Acknowledgments</div><br/><div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-1' class='sequence-6'>One. Introduction</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-3' class='sequence-7'>Initial Screening of Qualities</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-22' class='sequence-8'>Map of the Book</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-25' class='sequence-9'>Expert Panel</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-26' class='sequence-10'>Videotaping</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-28' class='sequence-11'>Library of Video Clips and Sample</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-31' class='sequence-12'>Visual Assessment Survey</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-35' class='sequence-13'>Walkability in Relation to Urban Design Qualities</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-37' class='sequence-14'>Inter-Rater Reliability of Scene Ratings</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-38' class='sequence-15'>Analyzing the Content of Sampled Scenes</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-39' class='sequence-16'>Urban Design Ratings in Relation to Physical Features</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-43' class='sequence-17'>Cross-Classified Random Effects Models</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-46' class='sequence-18'>Results of Statistical Analysis</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-54' class='sequence-19'>Final Steps</div><br/><div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-63' class='sequence-20'>Four. Urban Design Qualities for New York City - Kathryn M. Neckerman, Marnie Purciel-Hill, James W. Quinn, and Andrew Rundle</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-64' class='sequence-21'>Background</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-65' class='sequence-22'>Neighborhood Characteristics and Urban Design</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-68' class='sequence-23'>Methods</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-72' class='sequence-24'>Results</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-78' class='sequence-25'>New Strategies for Measuring Urban Design</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-81' class='sequence-26'>Conclusions</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-83' class='sequence-27'>Data</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-84' class='sequence-28'>Measures</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-88' class='sequence-29'>D Variables</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-91' class='sequence-30'>Analysis</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-93' class='sequence-31'>Results</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-96' class='sequence-32'>Discussion</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-99' class='sequence-33'>Getting Started</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-102' class='sequence-34'>Urban Design Quality Definitions</div><br/><div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-104' class='sequence-35'>Measurement Instructions</div><br/><div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-137' class='sequence-36'>Appendix 1: Biosketches of Expert Panel Members</div><br/><div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-140' class='sequence-37'>Appendix 2: Operational Definitions of Physical Features</div><br/><div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-158' class='sequence-38'>Appendix 3: Urban Design Qualities and Physical Features</div><br/><div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-163' class='sequence-39'>Appendix 4: Scoring Sheet Measuring Urban Design Qualities</div><br/><div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-167' class='sequence-40'>References</div><br/><div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-175' class='sequence-41'>Index</div><br/><div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-185' class='sequence-42'>Board of Directors</div><br/></div>
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