Distributed Attraction: The Effects of Street Network Connectivity upon the Distribution of Retail Frontage in the City of Buenos Aires

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 354-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin D Scoppa ◽  
John Peponis
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Street Network ◽  
The City ◽  
Street Network Connectivity

The impact of street network connectivity on pedestrian volume

Urban Studies ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (13) ◽  
pp. 2483-2497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Hajrasouliha ◽  
Li Yin
Keyword(s):  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Street Network ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Street Network Connectivity

TESTING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE STREET NETWORK OF CITIES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF PETROZAVODSK)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (65) ◽  
pp. 145-150
Author(s):  
Evgeny P. Dudkin ◽  
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Abujwaid Husam Abbas Mohsin ◽  
Leonid A. Losin ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Transport Network ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Street Network ◽  
Real Network ◽  
The City

The transport network of cities can be represented as a complex of streets and passages, as well as elements of public transport infrastructure unconnected with the street and road network. It is reasonable to represent the real network in the form of a simplified network based on graph theory to analyze the properties of the transport network. There are various methods of network connectivity assessment, including those based on various indices. According to all indicators in the street and road network of the city of Petrozavodsk it is necessary to increase the number of units. The implementation of recommendations for changes of the street and road network of the city of Petrozavodsk will reduce traffic congestion, the number of accidents and transport expenses. It is recommended to use the proposed method to assess and improve the street and road network of cities.

scholarly journals More dense but less walkable: the impact of macroscale walkability indicators on recent designs of emirati neighborhoods

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled Galal Ahmed ◽  
S. M. Hossein Alipour
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Network Connectivity ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Street Network ◽  
Urban Modelling ◽  
Intersection Density ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Street Network Connectivity

AbstractWith the aim to enhance sustainability in general including walkability, the recent urban forms of the designs of the Emirati neighborhoods have been denser and more compact, if compared with the older design models. While there are various guidelines and regulations related to the microscale walkability measures for the urban design of neighborhoods in the Emirates but unfortunately the macroscale walkability measures have not received similar attention. So, to investigate how would these denser and more compact recent neighborhoods designs better perform regarding walkability macroscale measures, the research utilized the urban modelling interface (UMI) walkability simulation tool to calculate the UMI Walkscores of these designs because it considers almost all macroscale factors including both urban morphology and urban planning measures and it also allows for the customization of the types, required catchment distances, and weights of the significance of locally provided amenities. The UMI Walkscores were calculated for the six recent denser and more compact neighborhoods designs and were compared with the UMI Walkscore for a conventionally designed model of urban sprawling neighborhoods. Unexpectedly, it has been found out that urban compactness per se is not a sufficient design measure for enhancing walkability in local neighborhood designs, where much higher compactness and density have achieved disappointing UMI Walkscores. So, it seems that for the recent neighborhoods’ designs, little attention was paid to the impact of the street network connectivity measures of Intersection Density, Block Length and the link-to-nodes ratio, on UMI Walkscores, if compared with the main attention paid to increasing FAR through decreasing plot sizes. Meanwhile, the explicit macroscale urban planning measures including the land-use factors of the types, numbers, and the location of amenities, as well as the implicit factors of their destination and global weights seem to be more influential in enhancing the UMI Walkscores but have been less considered when planning these neighborhoods. So, besides considering well-known macroscale urban morphology aspects of street network connectivity and locational distribution of provided amenities, boosting walkability macroscale measures on the design level requires adopting a set of adequately customized measures including the appropriate values of their global and distribution weights. These walkability design weights should be also resilient and continuously reviewed to satisfy the changing needs of the local communities. Based on its findings, the research proposed a five-actions plan to help boost walkability macroscale measures in the design of local urban communities in the UAE.

International Opera in Nineteenth-century New York

2020 ◽  
pp. 244-269
Author(s):  
Karen Ahlquist
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
World War I ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
World War ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
The City

This chapter charts how canonic repertories evolved in very different forms in New York City during the nineteenth century. The unstable succession of entrepreneurial touring troupes that visited the city adapted both repertory and individual pieces to the audience’s taste, from which there emerged a major theater, the Metropolitan Opera, offering a mix of German, Italian, and French works. The stable repertory in place there by 1910 resembles to a considerable extent that performed in the same theater today. Indeed, all of the twenty-five operas most often performed between 1883 and 2015 at the Metropolitan Opera were written before World War I. The repertory may seem haphazard in its diversity, but that very condition proved to be its strength in the long term. This chapter is paired with Benjamin Walton’s “Canons of real and imagined opera: Buenos Aires and Montevideo, 1810–1860.”

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