A Case Study of Pedestrian Environments Around Tamien Station in San Jose, California: An Analysis of Existing Conditions and Recommendations to Improve Pedestrian Access and Promote Walking Around Tamien Station

The objective of this research is to understand how the analysis of design elements can foster design recommendations for the transformation of the pedestrian environment around the Tamien Station area. This was done by conducting a street segment audit for twenty-five selected streets around the one-half mile walking distance of Tamien Station providing recommendations based on audit findings and urban design analysis

Determining thresholds for spatial urban design and transport features that support walking to create healthy and sustainable cities:findings from the IPEN Adult study

An essential characteristic of a healthy and sustainable city is a physically active population. Effective policies for healthy and sustainable cities require evidence-informed quantitative targets. We aimed to identify the minimum thresholds for urban design and transport features associated with two physical activity criteria: at least 80% probability of engaging in any walking for transport and WHO's target of at least 15% relative reduction in insufficient physical activity through walking. The International Physical Activity and the Environment Network Adult (known as IPEN) study (N=11 615; 14 cities across ten countries) provided data on local urban design and transport features linked to walking. Associations of these features with the probability of engaging in any walking for transport and sufficient physical activity (≥150 min/week) by walking were estimated, and thresholds associated with the physical activity criteria were determined. Curvilinear associations of population, street intersection, and public transport densities with walking were found. Neighbourhoods exceeding around 5700 people per km(2), 100 intersections per km(2), and 25 public transport stops per km(2) were associated with meeting one or both physical activity criteria. Shorter distances to the nearest park were associated with more physical activity. We use the results to suggest specific target values for each feature as benchmarks for progression towards creating healthy and sustainable cities

RESEARCH ON LANDSCAPE-ORIENTED URBAN DESIGN: ON THE EXAMPLE OF QIXIAN NEW INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT DESIGN IN FENGXIAN, SHANGHAI

Proceedings of the XXV ISUF International Conference “Urban Form and Social Context: from Traditions to Newest Demands” (Krasnoyarsk, July 5–9, 2018)In recent years, low carbon production and ecology have gradually become one of the most important topics in the field of architecture and urban design. Under the background of new urbanization in China, the status of eco-city theory and landscape design practice are gradually increasing in urban design. Therefore, as a new type of urban design, the landscape-oriented urban design has a strong practical significance. This method requires landscape going first in urban design and the layout of the buildings around the landscape design comes afterward. Fengxian District, part of Shanghai, is located in the southeast of the Yangtze River Delta. Since 1980s, the industry in Fengxian District has been developing rapidly with the main industry types of food, cardboard boxes, candy, printing, beauty and so on. This article takes the urban design of QiXian industrial zone as an example, introducing the application of the landscape-oriented urban design method. In this project, the venue is about 1.2 km long from east to west and 350 m wide from north to south. The original land function is for industrial use and it is to be transformed into a new industrial park where leading health and beauty as the leading industry. The design concept revolves around the “U-shaped” landscape corridors and creates a continuous corridor suitable for walking. A multi-story layout of “architecture-landscape-architecture” is adopted to construct the layout of the buildings around the landscape design and takes the form of courtyard. The paper explores landscape-oriented urban morphology design and provides new possibilities for landscape eco-city design. This paper is subsidized by NSFC project which is named as , NO.51678412