Street Urbanism

Risk Factors of Cycling in the Central Beijing 2023

北京四环内骑行环境风险评估

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北京四环内骑行环境风险评估报告.pdf
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Walkability for Main Chinese Cities 2021

中国城市步行友好性评价——步行设施改善状况研究 2021

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Our report collaborated with NRDC in 2021
中国城市步行友好性评价2021.pdf
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张书杰等 2022 城市发展研究_多年可步行性.pdf
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张书杰 2022 硕士论文_街道可步行性.pdf
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Walkability for Live-Work-Play Centers in Main Chinese Cities 2019

中国城市步行友好性评价——城市活力中心的步行性研究

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Our report collaborated with NRDC in 2019
中国城市步行友好性评价2019.pdf
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The report in English
WALKABILITY OF CHINESE CITIES 2019 Engli
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龙瀛等 2021 南方建筑_街道步行环境.pdf
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Walkability for Main Chinese Cities 2017

中国城市步行友好性评价——基于街道功能促进步行的研究

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Our report collaborated with NRDC in 2017
中国城市步行友好性评价2017.pdf
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龙瀛等 2018 新建筑_中国街道步行指数.pdf
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We are also sharing the street-scale Walk Score for all these cities below in the format of ShapeFiles. Please unzip the following two files and put them in the same directory and in this way you will be able to open the GIS file. For details please see the Data 44 in the Data Released channel of our website.

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DT44part1.zip
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DT44part2.zip
Compressed Archive in ZIP Format 86.1 MB

Key publications

We are working on Street Urbanism which is supposed to be a bridge to connect urban studies with planning & design. In addition to the overall introduction online shared, I also attach several recent publications by our group.

 

Online introduction is available HERE

 

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龙瀛 2016 时代建筑_街道城市主义.pdf
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龙瀛和高炳绪 2016 规划师_街道空间.pdf
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马尧天等 2016 北京规划建设_街道类型化.pdf
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Revealing the Spatial Preferences Embedded in Online Activities: A Case Study of Chengdu, China

Online activities based on various social media applications are gradually becoming a vital social activity issue in the mobile Internet era. This study aims to reveal the spatial preferences embedded in this new type of urban life to better plan and design future cities. With two different types of social media data—online location tagging from Weibo and online reviews of POIs on Dianping—we conducted a quantitative analysis to explore the relationship between online activities and the built environment elements. The results suggested that online activities remain associated with urban entities, and the activity represented by Dianping reviews revealed more significant spatial preferences than that described by Weibo check-ins. The results also showed similarities and differences between spatial choices of those who engage in these two activities. These findings allow for an in-depth understanding of contemporary cities complexity and provide new opportunities for integrating cyberspace and city space.
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Zhang et al 2021_SpringerCUPUM_ChengduVi
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Street vibrancy and its impact factors: A case study in Chengdu

Streets as traffic carrier and public space of a city, are playing increasingly important role in daily city life. We quantitatively explore the street vibrancy of Chengdu, while referring to the street urbanism proposed by Ying Long and Yao Shen in 2015. We first define the concepts of street, vibrancy and street urbanism, followed by developing the factors for quantitatively evaluating street vibrancy at the street level. These factors range from function density, function diversity, accessibility to metro stations, distance to city center and sub-centers, to street level and width. Linear regression has been adopted for identifying the impact of each factor on the street vibrancy, which is measured by population density derived from mobile phone traces. We specifically analyze the impact factors for public administration and service streets (Type A), commercial streets (Type B) and residential streets (Type C). As one of first studies on evaluating street vibrancy and its impact factors for the whole city, we expect this paper could shed light on the future urban studies.

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龙瀛和周垠 2016 新建筑_街道活力.pdf
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and a case study in Beijing

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郝新华等 2016 上海城市规划_北京街道活力.pdf
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and a study for night time vitality in Beijing

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裴昱等 2018 城市建筑_夜间活力.pdf
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and a literature review with a case study in Linyi

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马悦等 2022 UED_高活力城市空间.pdf
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Large-scale Evaluation for Street Walkability

Methodological Improvements and the Empirical Application in Chengdu

The significant effect of walking on urban sustainability has attracted worldwide attention. More and more walkability evaluation studies have been conducted in recent years. In this paper, we revised the evaluation method for WalkScore via introducing street greenery and applied the revised method in Chengdu. The application results reveal that streets in residential areas are associated with greater WalkScore, in comparing with those in business areas. In addition, streets being closer to the city center, sub centers, subway stations and shopping centers have greater WalkScore values as well. 

 

Please see the following visualization of the main Chinese cities for a glance at the calculation results.

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周垠和龙瀛 2017 上海城市规划_成都步行指数.pdf
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A special issue on street walkability in Shanghai Planning Review

《上海城市规划》专辑:街道可步行性

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Full papers for the special issue
《上海城市规划》2017年第1期街道可步行性专辑.pdf
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