Work precincts are recognized for their significant role as generators of employment and associated commerce within urban areas.This study describes a method for analyzing the physical characteristics of urban work pr...Work precincts are recognized for their significant role as generators of employment and associated commerce within urban areas.This study describes a method for analyzing the physical characteristics of urban work precincts in promoting the health and wellbeing of their occupants.The following physical parameters are analyzed:public transport accessibility,green and blue spaces,food environments,fitness facilities,supermarkets,and grocery stores.The parameters are assessed using quantitative spatial analysis based on street network data,as well as point of interest data acquired from OpenStreetMap(OSM).The streets and their intersections are stored in the OSM database as links and nodes,respectively.The evaluation of the performance metrics involves measuring the street network distance from each node to the closest node of interest for each parameter.The metrics are then combined,forming an urban health and wellbeing index(UHWI),which can be used to compare the performance of different precincts.The method was tested by investigating four work precincts in Sydney,Australia,all hosting a large office building belonging to the same business institution.Our results identified two of the four precincts with a high UHWI and resulted in the Identification of one underperforming precinct.展开更多
This paper elaborated natural conditions of Dali City,jurisdictions which included 2 offices,2 towns,89 village offices and 429 natural villages,and planning scope which contained the precinct area of Dali City and co...This paper elaborated natural conditions of Dali City,jurisdictions which included 2 offices,2 towns,89 village offices and 429 natural villages,and planning scope which contained the precinct area of Dali City and covers a total area of 1 815 km2.In accordance with the urban development space and functional layout of "one lake,two lines and two slices"("one lake" refers to Erhai Lake;"two lines" stands for the area in the east and west of Erhai Lake;"two slices" indicates the area in the north and south of Erhai Lake),based on the construction of provincial and national garden city and of large landscape city,green spatial network system with the combination of "spot","line" and "surface" was put forward,so as to manifest "largeness","wideness","harmony" and "linkage".And finally,the planning structure of green space system of "two circles,two slices,four belts,seven spots and eighteen waterfronts area"("two circles" refers to the area around the lake and the area around the mountain,"two slices" stands for the area in the north and south of Erhai Lake,"four belts" means four landscape belts of the garden city,"seven spots" indicates the seven green landscape spots in villages and towns,"eighteen waterfronts area" is colored green belt in eighteen stream's basin) was proposed.展开更多
文摘Work precincts are recognized for their significant role as generators of employment and associated commerce within urban areas.This study describes a method for analyzing the physical characteristics of urban work precincts in promoting the health and wellbeing of their occupants.The following physical parameters are analyzed:public transport accessibility,green and blue spaces,food environments,fitness facilities,supermarkets,and grocery stores.The parameters are assessed using quantitative spatial analysis based on street network data,as well as point of interest data acquired from OpenStreetMap(OSM).The streets and their intersections are stored in the OSM database as links and nodes,respectively.The evaluation of the performance metrics involves measuring the street network distance from each node to the closest node of interest for each parameter.The metrics are then combined,forming an urban health and wellbeing index(UHWI),which can be used to compare the performance of different precincts.The method was tested by investigating four work precincts in Sydney,Australia,all hosting a large office building belonging to the same business institution.Our results identified two of the four precincts with a high UHWI and resulted in the Identification of one underperforming precinct.
文摘This paper elaborated natural conditions of Dali City,jurisdictions which included 2 offices,2 towns,89 village offices and 429 natural villages,and planning scope which contained the precinct area of Dali City and covers a total area of 1 815 km2.In accordance with the urban development space and functional layout of "one lake,two lines and two slices"("one lake" refers to Erhai Lake;"two lines" stands for the area in the east and west of Erhai Lake;"two slices" indicates the area in the north and south of Erhai Lake),based on the construction of provincial and national garden city and of large landscape city,green spatial network system with the combination of "spot","line" and "surface" was put forward,so as to manifest "largeness","wideness","harmony" and "linkage".And finally,the planning structure of green space system of "two circles,two slices,four belts,seven spots and eighteen waterfronts area"("two circles" refers to the area around the lake and the area around the mountain,"two slices" stands for the area in the north and south of Erhai Lake,"four belts" means four landscape belts of the garden city,"seven spots" indicates the seven green landscape spots in villages and towns,"eighteen waterfronts area" is colored green belt in eighteen stream's basin) was proposed.
