Architecture & Built Environment · Urban Design & Planning
A topic within Urban Design & Planning, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
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Reid Ewing & Robert Cervero
A meta-analysis of dozens of studies finding that residential density, land-use mix and pedestrian-friendly design measurably reduce driving, giving planners a quantified basis for arguing built form changes travel behaviour.
Notes on this copyReid Ewing & Susan Handy
Shows 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.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copy