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The Digital Life of Walkable Streets
The Digital Life of
Walkable Streets
@danielequercia @rschifan @lajello @walkonomics
Слайд 2We cannot afford to leave architecture to architects
Слайд 3We cannot afford to leave computers to engineers
Слайд 4Neil Gershenfeld
Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms
“Computer science
is one of the worst things to happen to computers or to science because, unlike physics, it has arbitrarily segregated the notion that computing happens in an alien world.”
Слайд 18Quiet
Happy
Beauty
Google for “Happy Maps”
Слайд 21Why Walkability?
Adds 5-10 % to house prices
@ the heart
of the cure to the health-care crisis in US
Carbon saving (light-bulbs 1 year= living in a walkable for 1 week) neighborhood in 1 week)
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Public space surrendered to cars ...
Слайд 24“The General Theory of Walkability explains how, to be favored, a
walk has to satisfy four main conditions: it must be useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting. Each of these qualities is essential and none alone is sufficient.”
Слайд 26Walkonomics is a composite score of
1. Road safety (#accidents)
2. Easy
to cross (street type + traffic)
3. Sidewalks (width)
4. Hilliness
5. Navigation (signs on street)
6. Safety from crime
7. Smart and Beautiful (e.g., #trees, close parks)
8. Fun and relaxing (shops, bars, restaurants)
Слайд 29Hypothesis
A street’s vitality is captured in the digital layer
(there might be
digital footprints that distinguish walkable streets from unwalkable ones)
Слайд 30Method
1. Theoretically derive hypotheses concerning walkability
2. Test them
3. If supported, then
“valid” scores
Слайд 31Reliability
Measurement error
borrow measurement procedures from the literature
(e.g., a buffer
of 22.5 meters around each street’s polyline)
Specification error (Flickr/Foursquare biases) normalization measures (e.g., z-transformations) from previous studies
Sampling error
minimum amount of data such that the same results on repeated trials
Слайд 34The Rockefeller Foundation gave grants for urban topics:
To Kevin Lynch
(MIT) for studies of urban aesthetics
(Image of the City in 1960)
To Jane Jacobs for studies of urban life
(The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961)
Слайд 35The Death and Life of Great American Cities
the most influential
book in city planning
(“social capital", "mixed primary uses", "eyes on the street”)
critique of the 1950s urban renewal policies
(attacking Moses for “replacing well-functioning neighborhoods
with Le Corbusier-inspired towers”)
Слайд 36Death caused by elimination of pedestrian activity
(highway construction, large-scale development projects)
Life meant pedestrians at all times of the day
(“sidewalk ballet”)
Слайд 37nothing is safer than a city street that everybody uses
“the eyes
on the street”
Слайд 38253 patterns of good urban design (1977)
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“At night, street crimes are most prevalent in places where there
are too few pedestrians to provide natural surveillance, but enough pedestrians to make it worth a thief’s while”
Слайд 40Question 1
Can safe streets be identified by night activity?
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night (not at night) on street i
Слайд 42r(safe,night)= 0.60
safe street tend to be visited at night as well
Слайд 44streets with 30+ photos = stable correlations of r > 0.6
Слайд 45What about making “it worth a thief’s while”?
unsafe
ones are used by men only
OR unsafe streets used by women
Слайд 46Question 2
Can safe streets be identified by gender or age?
Слайд 48mi (fi) = fraction of male (female) users
who have taken a picture on street i
Слайд 49r(manhood,safety)=0.58
Safe streets tend to be visited by a predominantly male population
Слайд 53r(age,safety)=0.32
unsafe streets tend to be visited by a younger population
Слайд 55Crime prevention through environmental design
The physical environment can be
designed or
manipulated to reduce fear of crime (by
supporting certain activities over others)
Слайд 56Questions 3 & 4
Can safe (walkable) streets be identified by the
presence of specific types of places?
Слайд 58R2= 74% (safety from crime)
safe streets: outdoor places (mainly parks)
unsafe ones: residential bits of central London that have no parks
Слайд 59R2= 33% (walkability)
the presence of residential areas drives most of
the predictive power of the regression
Слайд 60Text
we gather the literature on walkability to produce a list of
walkability-related keywords
Line-by-line coding
Collecting documents
Annotating them
Validating them
Слайд 61Question 5
Can walkable streets be identified by walkability-related tags?
Слайд 64To sum up...
Picture uploads from dwellers of walkable streets differ from
those of unwalkable ones, mainly in terms of upload time and tagging *
* limited data vs. high penetration
Слайд 65Theoretical Implication
Social media = Opportunities for Theory
Comforted by our validation
work, urban researchers might well be enticed to use social media to answer theoretical questions that could not have been tackled before because of lack of data
Слайд 66Practical Implications
Room booking
Urban route recommendations
Real-estate
Слайд 67Limitation
It doesn’t work where there is little activity
(yet absence/presence of venues
work)
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Happy Maps
The Digital Life of Walkable Streets
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Smelly Maps
The Digital Life of Urban Smellscapes
Слайд 70Humans Can Discriminate More than 1 Trillion Olfactory Stimuli
Science, March 2014
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Yet, city planning can discriminate only a few bad odors
Слайд 73smell walks
Amsterdam, Pamplona, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newport, Paris, New York.
Слайд 74Good classification
The first urban smell dictionary
researchswinger.org/smellymaps
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Happy Maps
The Digital Life of Walkable Streets
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Smelly Maps
The Digital Life of Urban Smellscapes
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Chatty Maps
The Digital Life of Urban Soundscapes
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The Digital Life of Walkable Streets
The Digital Life of
Walkable Streets
@danielequercia @rschifan @lajello @walkonomics