Project SherlockEst. Knowledge

Report

2013

Our Built and Natural Environments

United States Environmental Protection Agency

Reviews the research linking land-use patterns, transportation choices and environmental outcomes, arguing that sprawling development measurably increases pollution, emissions and infrastructure cost compared with compact growth.

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Measuring the Unmeasurable: Urban Design Qualities Related to WalkabilityReid Ewing & Susan Handy, 2009Shows that qualities long treated as unmeasurable in urban design — a street's imageability, enclosure, human scale and transparency — can be operationalised from physical features and predict how walkable pedestrians actually rate a street.

Filed under Urban Design & Planning in Architecture & Built Environment.