THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
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We scoured the urban planning/urban design literature for research related to the built environment:
Community & Place-Making
Active frontages improve perceptions of safety, comfort, sociability and liveliness
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion: Community Gardens as Spaces of Responsibility
Changing communal space: a repeatable methodology for improving ‘rundown neighborhoods’
Commercial gentrification: local politics and the construction of place-based commercial identities
Compact, walkable, diverse: a positive outlook
Green Infrastructure and the Hidden Politics of Urban Stormwater Governance in a Postindustrial City
If youths spend too much time in front of screens, urbanism can help
Joint use of public schools: a framework for promoting healthy communities
Like a good neighbor? The built environment and neighborliness
Landscape City: Infrastructure, Natural Systems and City‐Making
New Urbanism may result in diverse neighborhoods, but not necessarily in diverse social interactions
Open spaces, closed spaces: perceiving built characteristics
Security over community? The psychosocial implications of dwelling type
Social cohesion and built characteristics in high-disadvantage neighborhoods
Social-mix policies and their effects/affects within social space: problems from Amsterdam
Shopping streets potentiate cultural change in Stuttgart, Germany
Slow and steady: Jane Jacobs and gradual neighborhood development
Sprawl vs. compact development: reframing the debate in light of fraught definitions
‘Suburban infill’: where can second units have a positive impact?
Tall buildings and place-making: a conceptual model
The why and how of participatory place-making
Trees: benefits, challenges, and solutions
The right trees for your city are in this database
UK ‘home zones’ and their impact on liveability and activity
Urbanism, if done right, can strengthen local identities
Urban Precarity and Home: There Is No “Right to the City”
Where does face-to-face interaction happen?
Why do liberals like compact development more than conservatives do?
Why urbanists need to plan small
Why urbanists need to think bigger
Crime & Safety
A Tale of Two Burglaries: different factors lead to daytime and nighttime burglary
A Tree Grows in Portland: the relationship between trees and crime
Active frontages improve perceptions of safety, comfort, sociability and liveliness
Built form affects perceived safety
Crime Prevention through Environmental Design: overview of history and future outlook
Kids walking home from school have insights into neighborhood design
Open spaces, closed spaces: perceiving built characteristics
Pedestrian safety and how planning can enhance it
Social cohesion and built characteristics in high-disadvantage neighborhoods
The elderly and how community design can promote their safety
Diversity & Equity
Barbershop: the role of African American barbershops in resilient social networks
Commercial gentrification: local politics and the construction of place-based commercial identities
Compact, walkable, diverse: a positive outlook
Ethnic entrepreneurship can help communities better if they are recognized in public discourse
Ethnic entrepreneurship in core-periphery geographies of the late-19th United States
Home-based enterprises are necessities, and urban planners need to take note
Integration through tenure mixing: good or bad for low-income residents?
Neighborhood diversity doesn’t appear to attract the ‘creative class’
New Urbanism may result in diverse neighborhoods, but not necessarily in diverse social interactions
SoCal municipalities don’t offer these incentives to make housing more affordable, but could
Social-mix policies and their effects/affects within social space: problems from Amsterdam
Sprawl hinders socioeconomic mobility
The widening gap between poor and rich neighborhoods since 1970
Underserved: food markets in inner-city Boston
White neighborhoods still experience greater SES ascent, but minority neighborhoods also on the rise
Economic Development
Active frontages improve perceptions of safety, comfort, sociability and liveliness
Affordable housing creates jobs
Asian megacities do rail right, tapping into the global economy
Business improvement districts appear ineffective in NYC
Central town retail: emerging development strategies in Milan, Italy
Commercial gentrification: affordable workspace policy is not a “policy panacea”
Commercial gentrification: local politics and the construction of place-based commercial identities
Contesting the Unethical City: Land Dispossession and Corruption Narratives in Urban India
Driving in shopping districts reduced by lower speed limit and fewer driveway crossings
Faster-growing cities do worse for residents
Geography, trade, and internal migration in China
Home-based enterprises are necessities, and urban planners need to take note
How large-scale retail hurts Turkey, and how to fix it
Is Ebay replacing or remaking second-hand markets in cities?
Is New Urbanism right about retail and rail?
Retail impact assessments: evaluating two competing models
Planned and unplanned retail development in a ‘dumb-bell-shaped’ shopping center
Renewal, not removal: a case study of urban renewal that doesn’t lead to gentrification
Stores can be effectively designed for different kinds of shoppers
The location of retail stores and street centrality in Guangzhou, China
The widening gap between poor and rich neighborhoods since 1970
Underserved: food markets in inner-city Boston
WalMart: Chicago superstore captures local retail sales without expanding the market
WalMart: How local and regional policy can make it work
WalMart’s impact on local economies unclear, especially in the long-term
White neighborhoods still experience greater SES ascent, but minority neighborhoods also on the rise
Governance & Policy
Adaptable built form can lead to sustained street vitality
At odds? The aesthetic preferences of planners and the public regarding built form
Business improvement districts appear ineffective in NYC
Central town retail: emerging development strategies in Milan, Italy
Commercial gentrification: affordable workspace policy is not a “policy panacea”
Connection between codes and walkability
Crime Prevention through Environmental Design: overview of history and future outlook
Faster-growing cities do worse for residents
Get rid of the parking mandate: why parking and street regulations do more harm than good
Home-based enterprises are necessities, and urban planners need to take note
How land-use patterns can be used to model public expenditures
How large-scale retail hurts Turkey, and how to fix it
How local policy can help small business in times of recession
Jane Jacobs was right: empirical verification in Seoul
Kids walking home from school have insights into neighborhood design
Land use homogenization in Phoenix, AZ, 1915-1963
Mixed-use streets in London: what does the future hold?
“Model Subdivisions”: poor self-help settlements and their implications for policy
Pedestrian safety and how planning can enhance it
Planning success depends on understanding market forces
Practitioners must take visual connectivity seriously
Renewal, not removal: a case study of urban renewal that doesn’t lead to gentrification
Slow and steady: Jane Jacobs and gradual neighborhood development
‘Suburban infill’: where can second units have a positive impact?
SoCal municipalities don’t offer these incentives to make housing more affordable, but could
Social Vulnerability to Climatic Shocks Is Shaped by Urban Accessibility
Sprawl vs. compact development: reframing the debate in light of fraught definitions
Structuring Hydrosocial Relations in Urban Water Governance
The history and revival of representing urban space with figure-ground diagrams
The Land of a Thousand Hills: Rwanda's New Urban Agenda
Urban service provision: strengths and weaknesses of five theoretical approaches
WalMart: How local and regional policy can make it work
What is density? Toward a more nuanced understanding of density and its implications
Who wants Smart Growth? Evidence from the Salt Lake region
Why urbanists need to plan small
Why urbanists need to think bigger
Housing
Affordable Housing and NIMBYism: is there a way forward?
Affordable housing creates jobs
Death by sprawl: traffic fatalities associated with land use patterns of sprawl
Growing demand for traditionally designed subdivisions?
Home values in NU neighborhoods fared better in recession, but NU features not the cause
Improving walkability increases home values, but only in already walkable neighborhoods
Integration through tenure mixing: good or bad for low-income residents?
Measuring Informal Housing Production in California Cities
Minimum parking requirements hurt renters
“Model Subdivisions”: poor self-help settlements and their implications for policy
On-site parking requirements may increase congestion
Security over community? The psychosocial implications of dwelling type
SoCal municipalities don’t offer these incentives to make housing more affordable, but could
Social-mix policies and their effects/affects within social space: problems from Amsterdam
Suburban connectivity: how multifamily housing design affects mode choice and level of active travel
‘Suburban infill’: where can second units have a positive impact?
Strained connection between New Urbanism and increased housing prices
Transit-induced gentrification: how pervasive is it, and how can it be mitigated?
Urban Growth Boundary inflates land prices, deflates housing prices in King County, WA
Metrics & Methodology
A 'bikeability index' to get people biking
Adaptable built form can lead to sustained street vitality
Applying Google Street View and machine learning to studying walkability
Changing communal space: a repeatable methodology for improving ‘rundown neighborhoods’
Community and Urban Places in a Digital World
Diagnosing space: a spatial modeling method to ameliorate socio-economic performance
Determinants of urban sprawl in European cities
Does block size matter? Smaller isn’t necessarily better for pedestrians
Different New Urbanisms: a three-pronged typology
Fragmentation in Urban Movements The Role of Urban Planning Processes
Land use homogenization in Phoenix, AZ, 1915-1963
“Morpho”: a methodology for assessing urban form
Retail impact assessments: evaluating two competing models
Simulating pedestrian and crowd movement
An urban studies approach to elites: nurturing conceptual rigor and methodological pluralism
Transportation
A 'bikeability index' to get people biking
Asian megacities do rail right, tapping into the global economy
Death by sprawl: traffic fatalities associated with land use patterns of sprawl
Does walkability lead to connectivity? Some potential limitations of smart growth
Driving in shopping districts reduced by lower speed limit and fewer driveway crossings
Driving, parking, and land use: an econometric analysis
Get rid of the parking mandate: why parking and street regulations do more harm than good
How microscale design influences the decision to bicycle
Is New Urbanism right about retail and rail?
Minimum parking requirements hurt renters
New Urbanism + conventional traffic engineering = conventional traffic behaviors
On-site parking requirements may increase congestion
Practitioners must take visual connectivity seriously
Sprawl hinders socioeconomic mobility
Streetcar vs. light rail ridership: different modes for different blokes
Suburban connectivity: how multifamily housing design affects mode choice and level of active travel
TODs create less demand for parking and driving
Transit-induced gentrification: how pervasive is it, and how can it be mitigated?
Walkability
Applying Google Street View and machine learning to studying walkability
Connection between codes and walkability
Compact, walkable, diverse: a positive outlook
Does block size matter? Smaller isn’t necessarily better for pedestrians
Does walkability lead to connectivity? Some potential limitations of smart growth
Driving in shopping districts reduced by lower speed limit and fewer driveway crossings
Improving walkability increases home values, but only in already walkable neighborhoods
Kids walking home from school have insights into neighborhood design
Leisure walkers walk in their own neighborhood
Pedestrian safety and how planning can enhance it
Practitioners must take visual connectivity seriously
Rethinking the Geographies of Walkability in Small City Centers
Suburban connectivity: how multifamily housing design affects mode choice and level of active travel
The elderly and how community design can promote their safety
Walking in Tehran: obligation and other factors in deciding where and whether to walk
'Walkshed size' and its association with block pattern
Windows, street frontage, and street furniture may increase walkability