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Urban vitality, the Glossary

Urban vitality is the quality of spaces in cities that attract diverse groups of people for varied activities over frequent, varied times.^[1]

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Accessibility

Accessibility is the design of products, devices, services, vehicles, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Building

A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory.

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City block

A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design.

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The compact city or city of short distances is an urban planning and urban design concept, which promotes relatively high residential density with mixed land uses. Urban vitality and compact city are urban planning.

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Controlled-access highway

A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated.

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Cyclability

Cyclability is the degree of ease of bicycle circulation. Urban vitality and Cyclability are Sustainable transport and urban planning.

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Environment and Planning

The Environment and Planning journals are five academic journals.

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Feminist urbanism

Feminist urbanism is a theory and social movement concerning the impact of the built environment on women.

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Gentrification

Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents (the "gentry") and investment.

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Ghetto

A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure.

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Green urbanism

Green urbanism has been defined as the practice of creating communities beneficial to humans and the environment.

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Group cohesiveness

Group cohesiveness, also called group cohesion or social cohesion, arises when bonds link members of a social group to one another and to the group as a whole.

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Human ecology

Human ecology is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments. Urban vitality and human ecology are human geography.

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Human geography

Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography which studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment, examples of which include urban sprawl and urban redevelopment.

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Human scale

Human scale is the set of physical qualities, and quantities of information, characterizing the human body, its motor, sensory, or mental capabilities, and human social institutions.

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Intersection

In mathematics, the intersection of two or more objects is another object consisting of everything that is contained in all of the objects simultaneously.

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Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs (née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.

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Mixed-use development

Mixed use is a type of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning classification that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions are to some degree physically and functionally integrated, and that provides pedestrian connections. Urban vitality and Mixed-use development are Sustainable transport.

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Modern architecture

Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.

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Motor vehicle

A motor vehicle, also known as a motorized vehicle, automotive vehicle, '''automobile,''' or road vehicle, is a self-propelled land vehicle, commonly wheeled, that does not operate on rails (such as trains or trams) and is used for the transportation of people or cargo.

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Natural surveillance

Natural surveillance is a term used in crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) models for crime prevention.

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New Urbanism

New Urbanism is an urban design movement that promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. Urban vitality and new Urbanism are human ecology and Sustainable transport.

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Overtourism

Overtourism is the congestion or overcrowding from an excess of tourists, resulting in conflicts with locals.

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Pedestrian zone

Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, as pedestrian precincts in British English, and as pedestrian malls in the United States and Australia) are areas of a city or town restricted to use by people on foot or human-powered transport such as bicycles, with non-emergency motor traffic not allowed.

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Plaça dels Països Catalans, Barcelona

Plaça dels Països Catalans is a square in Barcelona (the capital of Catalonia, Spain) on one side of the city's central railway station, Estació de Sants, in the district of Sants-Montjuïc.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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Private transport

Private transport (as opposed to public transport) is the personal or individual use of transportation which are not available for use by the general public, where in theory the user can decide freely on the time and route of transit ('choice rider' vs. 'captive rider'), using vehicles such as: private car, company car, bicycle, dicycle, self-balancing scooter, motorcycle, scooter, aircraft, boat, snowmobile, carriage, horse, etc., or recreational equipment such as roller skates, inline skates, sailboat, sailplane, skateboard etc.

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Public space

A public space is a place that is open and accessible to the general public.

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip. Urban vitality and public transport are Sustainable transport.

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Purchasing power

Purchasing power refers to the amount of products and services available for purchase with a certain currency unit.

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Railway track

A railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (American English), also known as a train track or permanent way (often "perway" in Australia), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.

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Rationalism (architecture)

In architecture, Rationalism (razionalismo) is an architectural current which mostly developed from Italy in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Residential area

A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas.

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Ring road

A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city or country.

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Robert Moses

Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid-20th century.

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Royal Square (Barcelona)

The Royal Square (in Spanish: Plaza Real; in Catalan: Plaça Reial) is a square in the Barri Gòtic of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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A social relation is the fundamental unit of analysis within the social sciences, and describes any voluntary or involuntary interpersonal relationship between two or more individuals within and/or between groups.

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Sustainable urbanism

Sustainable urbanism is both the study of cities and the practices to build them (urbanism), that focuses on promoting their long term viability by reducing consumption, waste and harmful impacts on people and place while enhancing the overall well-being of both people and place. Urban vitality and Sustainable urbanism are urban planning.

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Tactical urbanism

Tactical urbanism, also commonly referred to as guerrilla urbanism, pop-up urbanism, city repair, D.I.Y. urbanism, planning-by-doing, urban acupuncture, and urban prototyping, is a low-cost, temporary change to the built environment, usually in cities, intended to improve local neighbourhoods and city gathering places. Urban vitality and Tactical urbanism are Sustainable transport and urban planning.

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a 1961 book by writer and activist Jane Jacobs.

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Third place

In sociology, the third place refers to the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of home ("first place") and the workplace ("second place").

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Town square

A square (or plaza, public square, or urban square) is an open public space used for various activities.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment. Urban vitality and urban area are urban planning.

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Urban decay

Urban decay (also known as urban rot, urban death or urban blight) is the sociological process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude. Urban vitality and urban decay are urban planning.

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Urban design

Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes.

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Urban ecology

Urban ecology is the scientific study of the relation of living organisms with each other and their surroundings in an urban environment. Urban vitality and urban ecology are human ecology and urban planning.

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Urban geography

Urban geography is the subdiscipline of geography that derives from a study of cities and urban processes. Urban vitality and urban geography are urban planning.

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Urban green space

In land-use planning, urban green space is open-space areas reserved for parks and other "green spaces", including plant life, water features - also referred to as blue spaces - and other kinds of natural environment. Urban vitality and urban green space are urban planning.

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Urban planning

Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks, and their accessibility.

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Urban renewal

Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities.

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Walkability

In urban planning, walkability is the accessibility of amenities by foot. Urban vitality and walkability are Sustainable transport.

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15-minute city

The 15-minute city (FMC or 15mC) is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk, bike ride, or public transit ride from any point in the city. Urban vitality and 15-minute city are Sustainable transport.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_vitality

, Urban planning, Urban renewal, Walkability, 15-minute city.

Urban vitality, the Glossary

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Human ecology

Urban sociology

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