Digital footprints of play: Decoding child-friendliness of cities through PPGIS

Cities, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 159, P. 105766 - 105766

Published: Jan. 31, 2025

Language: Английский

Leveraging a Cooler, Healthier, and Decarbonized School Commute: City-Scale Estimation and Implications for Nanjing, China

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14(3), P. 114 - 114

Published: March 5, 2025

An important aspect of a well-designed urban form is supporting active school travel by adolescents, as it has positive effects on physical activity, healthy lifestyles, and reducing vehicle-related carbon emissions. To achieve this, necessary to provide sufficient shading fewer detours home–school routes, especially in an era frequent heatwaves. Analyzing the environment at city scale essential for identifying practical solutions informing comprehensive policy-making. This study proposes framework investigating, assessing, intervening routes Nanjing, China, emphasizing dual assessment commuting based pedestrian detour ratio ratio. work reveals that approximately 34% middle households Nanjing face challenges walking from school, with only 24.18% offering shade. We advocate reengineering forms barriers facilitate shortcuts, thereby providing school-age students better access cooler healthier environments, aiming promote reduce car dependence. The findings may encourage more families engage serve lever drive decarbonization combat climate warming. Our work, transferability other cities, can assist designers piloting (re)form incrementally pragmatically sustainable agendas.

Language: Английский

Analysis and Optimization Prioritization of School Routes in Mountainous Cities Based on Child-Friendly Principles: A Case Study of Chongqing

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(9), P. 3936 - 3936

Published: April 27, 2025

This study addresses the critical gap in designing child-friendly school commuting routes mountainous cities like Chongqing, where steep terrain and complex infrastructure pose unique challenges to children’s safety accessibility. Combining Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) Kano model, we systematically evaluated 19 design elements across safety, interest, convenience dimensions through comprehensive field research surveys involving 611 participants. Our analysis identified emergency signage systems, street greening, parent pick-up points as pivotal optimization factors, while revealing significant improvement needs for vehicle speed limits anti-slip pavement. The findings demonstrate how context-specific, evidence-based solutions can effectively enhance experiences challenging urban environments, providing planners with a scientifically-grounded framework that adapts principles contexts. advances of planning by bridging current theoretical-practical divide offering actionable strategies tailored geographically constrained cities.

Language: Английский