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May 28, 2020Sustainability90 citationsOpen Access

Planning and Design Support Tools for Walkability: A Guide for Urban Analysts

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IBIvan BlečićTCTanja CongiuGFGiovanna Fancello

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We present a survey of operational methods for walkability analysis and evaluation, which we hold show promise as decision-support tools for sustainability-oriented planning and urban design. An initial overview of the literature revealed a subdivision of walkability studies into three main lines of research: transport and land use, urban health, and livable cities. A further selection of articles from the Scopus and Web of Science databases focused on scientific papers that deal with walkability evaluation methods and their suitability as planning and decision-support tools. This led to the definition of a taxonomy to systematize and compare the methods with regard to factors of walkability, scale of analysis, attention on profiling, aggregation methods, spatialization and sources of data used for calibration and validation. The proposed systematization aspires to offer to non-specialist but competent urban analysts a guide and an orienteering, to help them integrate walkability analysis and evaluation into their research and practice.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69d71cb5236f4746d4563830https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114405
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