For decades the literature on the winter cities and on urban design has explored the implications of poorly designed urban spaces on pedestrian mobility during various seasons. In Canada, however, practice in using climate responsive design principles tends to be the exception. Using a case...

This paper is an original attempt to explore the inner logic of and apply the Coase Theorem—specifically the corollary of the invariant version of the Coase Theorem (CIT) and the extension of the corollary of the optimality version of the Coase Theorem (COTE)—to empirical planning research....

The property rights approach to urban development has recently been proposed in the planning literature to explain how urban systems self-organize spatially and institutionally. The land-tenure system is one of the key factors affecting land use and thus urban development. It is not clear,...

Classification of geographic phenomena is often a black box to anyone outside the immediate group involved in the classification process. There is a growing need for compatibility between datasets to map, evaluate, and monitor areas in a consistent manner. The FAO (Food and Agriculture...

Social network membership and biography shape a person’s mental map and social network geography, and thus should influence his or her travel behaviour. This paper discusses what content needs to be added to the current set of questions asked in travel behaviour surveys if we want to capture...

The complexity of the sustainable-development policy goal is such that policy makers are searching for tools to enable them to evaluate and develop policy directions. To date, ecological footprinting has been used mainly for raising awareness of environmental impacts but it also has considerable...

Interest in how individuals cope with uncertainty when scheduling their activities and trips has increased in recent years. While providing many useful concepts and insights, previous work tends to treat individuals as atomised decision-making units. This paper argues that it is imperative to...

This paper investigates the impact of pedestrian environments on walking behavior, and the related choice of travel path for transit riders. Activity logs from trip surveys combined with transit-route and land-use information are used to fit discrete-choice models of how riders choose among...

This paper proposes an application of the fuzzy Delphi method, the analytic network process (ANP) and zero – one goal programming (ZOGP) for the urban renewal project selection problem in a redeveloping urban area in Taichung City, Taiwan. Urban renewal project selection means the...