Urbanization's rapid progress presents an urgent challenge for developing a predictive,
quantitative theory of “the death and life of cities”(aka “the essential diversity conditions for …

Urban vitality has long been a focus of urban planners and designers. This study portrays
the spatiotemporal patterns of urban vitality in Chengdu, China, on weekdays and weekends …

Identifying urban vitality in large cities is critical for optimizing the urban fabric. While great
attention has been paid to urban vitality in developed countries, related studies have been …

Relationship between urban diversity and urban vitality is imperative for guiding better
design in urban development, although existing frameworks are not able to efficiently …

With the increasing demand for liveable cities, efforts to promote high degrees of street
vitality have become prevalent in contemporary urban design. Nevertheless, exploring the …

Promoting urban vibrancy is one of the major objectives of urban planners and government
officials, and it is linked to various benefits, such as urban prosperity and human well-being …

Urban vitality is an important indicator of urban development capacity. Streets' metrics can
depict intro-urban fabrics and physiognomy in detail, and thus street vitality affected by street …

A quantitative study of urban vitality brings new insights for evaluating the external
construction environment and internal development power of cities. However, it still has …

In this paper, we propose a computational approach to Jane Jacobs' concept of diversity and
vitality, analyzing new forms of spatial data to obtain quantitative measurements of urban …

Understanding urban vibrancy aids policy-making to foster urban space and therefore has
long been a goal of urban studies. Recently, the emerging urban big data and urban analytic …