City Public Facilities Research Articles

Understanding Plum Rain’s Effects on Urban Public Bicycle Unavailability Considering Both Place Semantics and Riding Distance

The effect of the plum rain weather event on cycling trips reflects the climate resilience of the public bicycle system. However, quantitative studies regarding the impact of plum rain on public bicycle users and corresponding spatial heterogeneity have not been paid much attention. This paper explores the spatial pattern of affected levels from the perspective of cyclist number, place semantics and riding distance. Corresponding public bicycle trips in normal weather are predicted by spatial-temporal random forest prediction. GIS neighborhood statistics and clustering algorithms are adapted to analyze and visualize the affected levels using origin-destination data of public bicycle trips and point of interest data of city public facilities. It is proved that there is an obvious spatial difference in affected levels by plum rain from three dimensions. In the dimension of the number of cyclists, the docking stations with different affected levels are distributed across the whole urban area. In the place semantic dimension, the docking stations with high affected levels show a clustered zonal distribution in the city center. In the dimension of cycling distance, the docking stations with high affected levels are mainly distributed in the periphery of the central urban area. The study theoretically expands the impact mechanism of environment and active transport. It is beneficial for the early monitoring, warning and assessment of climate change risks for public bicycle planning and management.

Algılanan Kent Rekabetçiliğinin Kent Markalaşması Üzerine Etkisi: Düzce İli Ekoturizm Örneği

The purpose of this study; is to examine the relationship between perceived urban competitiveness and urban branding. The research universe constitutes the province of Duzce. In the research, convenience sampling method was selected as sampling strategy. The data were collected via a survey technique. Accordingly, 423 questionnaires were distributed in total and 394 questionnaires were analyzed. Data obtained by using quantitative methods; were analysed via factor, correlation and multiple linear regression analyzes were performed. According to the results of the factor analysis, six dimensions related to perceived urban competitiveness and six dimensions related to urban branding were revealed. Dimensions related to perceived urban competitiveness; advanced factor conditions, specialized factor conditions, demand conditions, relevant and supportive industries, firm strategy-structure and competition and the role of the state. The dimensions of city branding consist of the level of awareness of the city, the attractiveness of the city's physical environment, the level of potential possibilities of the city, the level of vitality of the city, the level of awareness of the local people and the quality level of the city's public facilities. As a result of multiple linear regression analysis; urban competitiveness dimensions (specialized factor conditions, demand conditions and the role of the government) were determined to have a significant impact on urban branding dimensions.

Mandatory Mask ByLaws: Consideration Beyond Exemption for Persons with Disabilities

Mandatory mask bylaws are set to be instated in both Calgary and Edmonton, and other regions of Canada in efforts to reduce transmission of COVID-19. While mandatory mask bylaws are rooted in the interest of public safety, accessibility challenges for persons with disabilities need to be considered to ensure full participation in society. This communique highlights some key considerations for implementation of inclusive mandatory mask guidelines. The City of Calgary and other jurisdictions are implementing a bylaw that mandates face coverings be worn in public transit, public vehicles for hire, public indoor space and City public facilities. There are a number of important considerations for persons with disability in regard to acquisition of face masks, public participation, and enforcement of mask-wearing policies. Without inclusive design and clear communication, mandatory mask bylaws may produce numerous barriers to social re-entry for persons with disabilities. Such barriers include unequal access to face masks, social stigma, exclusion from public spaces, and disproportionate questioning or penalization (Williamson and Whaley 2020). As the economy re-opens, it is important to ensure the safety of all Albertans. While mandatory face mask bylaws have evidence to support effectiveness in slowing transmission, safe economic re-launch must be inclusive of persons with disabilities, a demographic that has been inequitably burdened by the effects of COVID-19 and unduly overlooked in pandemic response and recovery planning.

Toward the participatory human‐centred community an exploration of cyber‐physical public design for urban experience

With the development of information technology, designing urban experience faces an unprecedented challenge: the combination of cyber information and physical facilities. Cyber-Physical Social System (CPSS) forms the connection between virtual and physical objects, public and private, activeness and passiveness, leading an innovative way to explore human-centred design practice in the context of city and community. The challenges faced by urban communities and extend the design practice of SPSS in combination with public participation community design and Living Lab method. Through three practical cases and related evaluation feedbacks, this study presents a Cyber-Physical Public Design (CPPD) model of a human city. The CPPD model is constructed based on CPSS with the human-centred concept. By combining physical touch points with virtual information world, it is possible to collect data on residents’ lives and improve the city's public facilities and space design, rebuild the urban communities to better meet the needs of the public.

City Public Facilities System’s Design and Implementation under the Horizon of Environment Behavior

With the rapid economic development, public facilities demanding to the city public service facilities is increasing. Distinctive expression of urban culture, reflecting the urban characteristics, improving recognition and vividness of the city, is particularly important for the promotion of tourism, stimulating urban economy.City tourism public facilities can express distinctive urban culture, reflect the urban characteristics, and thus the study of urban tourism service facilities and improving the urban tourism public facilities system, for improving the urban development is extremely important.Based on this, this paper presents city tourism public facilities system’s design and implementation under the horizon of environment behavior,designed to background urban construction and development-based, people - behavior - environment as a starting point to guide behavior through environmental science, improve urban tourism research system of public facilities.

On the Application of Design of Urban Public Environmental Facilities in Natural Disasters

Recently, natural disasters happen frequently and people are more aware of the importance of building a safe living environment. While giving concern on safety precaution of city architectures, people should also bring the factor of natural disasters into the design of city public facilities since they belong to the design of safety precaution. For example, city public facilities will take effect when disasters happen.

Physical Activity, Health, Nutritional, And Leisure Habits Of College Students Of Chihuahua, Mexico

1120 PURPOSE: Health habits of Chihuahua college students have been explored through a questionnaire originally developed to assess active lifestyles among Spanish people. METHODS: A sample of 50 female and 47 male, college level, students of the University of Chihuahua was surveyed. RESULTS: Most frequently reported physical activities were aerobics (N = 55), swimming (N = 51), basketball (N = 46), jogging (N = 39), weightlifting (N = 34), and cycling (N = 33). These figures suggest that active students were engaged in several exercise modalities; only 6,2% of the surveyed students worked out on campus; 19% attended private fitness centers. The remaining 74.8% exercised at city public facilities. Evaluation of the relationship between interest in, and actual practice of, sports/physical activity, showed that 47,6% felt they did not exercise as much as they would like to; 28,9% were not physically active at all at the time of the study. Leisure activity patterns differed greatly between genders. Men watched more TV, whereas music listening and reading were more frequent among women. As far as nutritional habits was concerned, Out of 45 students who were active, 44 regularly consumed alcohol containing drinks, as opposed to only 28 of the 37 physically inactive. Meal patterns varied among activity groups. Sedentary students reported the highest frequencies of consumption of hot dinner, tea/coffee, pastries, and corn tortillas. Highly active students reported significantly lower figures on nearly all those categories. Only their consumption of corn tortillas was almost as high as that of the sedentary subjects. DISCUSSION and CONCLUSIONS: Our results strongly suggest that students who exercise regularly tend to display a healthier lifestyle than those less physically active. Lifestyles differences also seem to exist between genders among Chihuahua college students, as well as between Chihuahua and Spanish students. Chihuahua students would seem to consume less alcoholic beverages than their Spanish counterparts, according to studies previously conducted in the latter. Chihuahua male students' most frequently reported leisure activity was TV watching, whereas Spanish students' most frequently reported activity was to socialize with their relatives, in the realm of the extended family tradition. These differences strongly suggest a substantial degree of lifestyle differentiation betwwen european and latin american students, despite a common cultural heritage.