Free and open source tools present numerous opportunities to support current urban
planning practice. However, their overview is fragmented, and the uptake among planning …

Active travel is enthusiastically promoted in the Western world due to its clear and
demonstrated individual and collective benefits. While active travel has been shown to be …

Abstract Spatial Design Network Analysis (sDNA) is a toolbox for 3-d spatial network
analysis, especially street/path/urban network analysis, motivated by a need to use network …

Over the last fifty years, research into street networks has gained prominence with a rapidly
growing number of studies across disparate disciplines. These studies investigate a wide …

Cycling is a climate-friendly, cost-effective, and greenhouse gas-efficient transport mode that
produces relevant positive aspects to: urban innovation (new technology and services, that …

Social media check-in data, one type of crowdsourcing open data about individual activity-
related choices, provides a new perspective to sense people's spatial and temporal …

Urban morphology is the area of urban studies that explores the physical form of cities in
space and the way it changes in time in relation to the agents of such change (Kropf, 2017) …

Space syntax is a set of theories and techniques about buildings and cities and how they
function, rooted in a theory of society and space that originated at the UCL Bartlett School of …

Prevailing measures of street design have largely ignored the relational properties between
local and global street design as correlates of walking behaviour. This study contributes to …

Although tourist development appears to be an effective approach for the further
development of historic towns, researchers have often contended that a balance is difficult to …