The adverb anymore is standardly a negative polarity item (NPI), which must be licensed by triggers of non-positive polarity. Some Englishes also allow anymore in positive-polarity clauses. Linguists have posited that this non-polarity anymore (NPAM)...
Traditional settlements face the dual spatial challenges of accommodating local aging needs and sustaining heritage tourism. Focusing on the historic center of Tianchang Town, this study employs a mixed-methods approach to investigate spatial vitalit...
Traditional villages commonly face functional decline and vitality loss amid modernization, which severely threatens the long-term cultural and ecological sustainability of rural heritage spaces. Commercial settlements, evolved along ancient trade ro...
In the context of urbanization, the renewal of old communities constitutes a crucial aspect for enhancing the living environment. Currently, the social benefits and utilization efficiency achieved through the renewal of such neighborhoods fall short...
This contribution demonstrates how space syntax methods on various scale levels can be used to identify and describe the spatial features of a compact city. Firstly, the term urban compactness is discussed. A short discussion of some writings on the...
A long-time generative tradition treats the functional domains of the verb and noun as a result of motion and affixing; however, assuming a close correspondence between the order in syntax and morphology, as in the Mirror Principle proposed by Baker...
Nowadays, city forms are changing due to rapid urbanization and increasing population. In urban morphology studies, walkable street network is examined through the city form to create sustainable cities. This study aims to examine accessibility of st...
This paper takes the “Largos” of the Macau Peninsula as the object of study. By applying historical combing and field research, the main functions of Largos are categorized as follows: serving the community, facilitating traffic and promo...
This study aims to account for the variation in aspect choices in factual imperfective contexts in Polish, Czech, and Russian. A series of online questionnaires were conducted wherein the native speakers of the tested languages were asked to fill in...
Urban neighborhoods in India face an uneven distribution and limited accessibility to parks and playgrounds, particularly in dense mixed-use areas where rapid urbanization constrains green infrastructure planning. To address these challenges, the Sus...
This paper presents some of the findings of a study comparing the form and function of two traditional markets on the Arabian Peninsula: Souq Mutrah in Muscat, Oman, and Souq Waqif in Doha, Qatar. Globalization and rapid urbanization characterize bot...
Street layout has a significant effect on accessibility and intelligibility, which ultimately affects navigation and movement efficiency. While previous research has examined planned and unplanned street patterns, most studies focus on single-scale a...
Nature-Based Solutions are defined as infrastructures or systems which are inspired by, supported by, or copied from nature. This biophilic leitmotif has rapidly permeated and been prescribed in many fields, particularly in urban and architectural de...
Currently, within the scope of research on the protection and adaptive reuse of industrial heritage, there is a relative paucity of quantitative studies focusing on pedestrian vitality at the micro-street level. Qingdao Textile Valley, a quintessenti...
Understanding the complexity of urban systems remains a significant challenge for researchers and practitioners in urban planning and governance. Cities function as multifaceted systems composed of interconnected subsystems with nonlinear interaction...
24 June 2022
Refugee children often spend a considerable amount of time in refugee accommodations with limited space and limited access to communal facilities. Such environmental settings make it difficult for refugee children to engage in physical activity (PA),...
Historic and cultural towns in China are crucial carriers of vernacular heritage, yet many unlisted historic buildings remain highly vulnerable to urbanization and fragmented governance. This study takes Xiangzhu Town in Zhejiang Province as a case s...
Extensive studies have demonstrated the relationship between static street networks and dynamic pedestrian movement. Street vendors temporarily appear in a vibrant space, closely engaging with numerous pedestrians. Is street vending distribution rela...
Historic waterfront streets are not only an important component of urban public spaces but also highlight the distinctive features and historical contexts of the city. High-quality streetscape visual perception plays a crucial role in advancing the c...
As clan and blood relations are the essential core of rural social attributes, the rise and fall of the main family names in a village not only affects the spatial arrangement of their internal courtyard houses but also influences the overall spatial...
An “Innerburb” is an urban structure that emerged between the 1950s and 1980s, settled in rural areas, and is considered the first periphery of the Latin American city. This structure results from socio-spatial and territorial evolutionar...
Street networks shape urban dynamics. However, at the important meso- and micro-scales, a research limitation remains in systematically linking the spatial logic of streets to the physical configuration of street-level commerce, in particular through...
22 December 2021
(1) Background: In the context of a children friendly city, accessibility and safety are the basic needs of children’s pedestrian school travel. This study proposes a comprehensive evaluation method of pedestrian accessibility and safety for ch...
There is a need for knowledge of how the spatial features of the urban environment can shape the potential for safe streets and a gender inclusive society. This research reveals the relationship between a built environment’s spatial features, t...
Cities in cold regions face significant challenges, including high carbon emissions, intense energy use, and outdated energy structures, making them critical areas for achieving carbon neutrality and sustainable development. While studies have explor...
24 May 2019
Research has sufficiently documented the built environment correlates of walking. However, evidence is limited in investigating the comparative associations of micro- (streetscape features) and macro-level (street network design and land-use) environ...
As global urban development shifts towards stock upgrading and cultural tourism consumption, historic and cultural districts have become crucial spatial carriers for reshaping local identity and driving urban regeneration. Although the literature exp...
Sustainable historic-town conservation requires preserving historical patterns and cultural memory while understanding how spatial environments shape everyday perception. Using Yun’an Ancient Salt Town in Chongqing, China, this study develops a...
The 2024 World Heritage inscription of the Beijing Central Axis shifts the focus of historic district governance to quality-oriented urban regeneration. However, evaluating the precise alignment between infrastructural topology and cultural meaning r...
Urban vitality research treats food-and-beverage venues as aggregate point-of-interest counts and existing morphometric classification frameworks operate at the building, block or neighbourhood scale, leaving the commercial ground-floor interface wit...
This paper focuses on urban regeneration practices in central urban areas, aiming to find key points for reshaping the publicness of urban spaces by exploring the morphological features of public spaces and the spatial distribution patterns of public...
In order to provide open access to data of public interest, it is often necessary to perform several data curation processes. In some cases, such as biological databases, curation involves quality control to ensure reliable experimental support for b...
Street vitality is an important indicator of urban attractiveness and sustainable development, and it has become a central topic in contemporary urban planning and research. Using the PRISMA methodology, this review systematically examines four major...
In order to study an algorithm that recognizes the state of health (SOH) of a battery rapidly and can be easily integrated into the micro-controller unit (MCU), it is proposed that signal temporal logic (STL) language is employed to describe the disc...
Human soundscape perceptions exist through the perceived environment rather than the physical environment itself and are determined not only by the acoustic environment but also by the visual environment and their interaction. However, these relation...