{"title":"Planned built environments and city transformation: urban design in Montreal, 1956–2015","authors":"François Racine","doi":"10.1680/JURDP.17.00015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/JURDP.17.00015","url":null,"abstract":"Research on Canadian urbanism and, in particular, Canadian urban design, despite some notable exceptions, are relatively limited. This paper explains from an urban form perspective, the practice of...","PeriodicalId":44716,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Urban Design and Planning","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74191845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angela Curl, Catharine Ward Thompson, Peter Aspinall, Marcus Ormerod
{"title":"Developing an audit checklist to assess outdoor falls risk.","authors":"Angela Curl, Catharine Ward Thompson, Peter Aspinall, Marcus Ormerod","doi":"10.1680/udap.14.00056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/udap.14.00056","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Falls by older people (aged 65+) are linked to disability and a decrease in mobility, presenting a challenge to active ageing. As such, older fallers represent a vulnerable road user group. Despite this there is little research into the causes and prevention of outdoor falls. This paper develops an understanding of environmental factors causing falls or fear of falling using a walk-along interview approach with recent fallers to explore how older people navigate the outdoor environment and which aspects of it they perceived facilitate or hinder their ability to go outdoors and fear of falling. While there are a number of audit checklists focused on assessing the indoor environment for risk or fear of falls, nothing exists for the outdoor environment. Many existing street audit tools are focused on general environmental qualities and have not been designed with an older population in mind. We present a checklist that assesses aspects of the environment most likely to encourage or hinder those who are at risk of falling outdoors, developed through accounting for the experiences and navigational strategies of elderly individuals. The audit checklist can assist occupational therapists and urban planners, designers and managers in working to reduce the occurrence of outdoor falls among this vulnerable user group.</p>","PeriodicalId":44716,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Urban Design and Planning","volume":"169 3","pages":"138-153"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1680/udap.14.00056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34472758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nashid Nabian, Dietmar Offenhuber, Anthony Vanky, C. Ratti
{"title":"Data dimension: accessing urban data and making it accessible","authors":"Nashid Nabian, Dietmar Offenhuber, Anthony Vanky, C. Ratti","doi":"10.1680/UDAP.12.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/UDAP.12.00011","url":null,"abstract":"New technologies allow for new ways to sense the city. Thinking of urban data as substance, this paper criticises a certain approach in dealing with urban-related data analysis when it comes to identifying certain patterns and deriving narratives based on these patterns. In this approach, coined here as the ‘big data’ approach, having access to large-volume datasets is considered sufficient to study a phenomena and its very dynamics that the data refers to. In contrast to this, this paper examines ways in which data can be produced, modified and delivered; in any of these steps, there is an ongoing cost–benefit analysis, based on which a series of necessary decisions in terms of resolution and quality of data through the lens of filtering has to be made with the goal of accessing data and making it accessible most effectively. Projects from MIT SENSEable City Lab are used to better illustrate these ideas.","PeriodicalId":44716,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Urban Design and Planning","volume":"37 1","pages":"60-75"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2013-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80087260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}