How Attractive for Walking Are the Main Streets of a Shrinking City?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17310%2F20%3AA21027AW" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17310/20:A21027AW - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/15/6060" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/15/6060</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12156060" target="_blank" >10.3390/su12156060</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How Attractive for Walking Are the Main Streets of a Shrinking City?
Original language description
This research assesses the way main streets are perceived and used by pedestrians in an industrial, Central-European city—Ostrava in Czechia. The city has recently experienced shrinkage and changing patterns of socio-economic exchange, reason why this research is timely and needed in view of city center regeneration. Four main streets have been purposefully selected for this study. The research methods include questionnaires with street users (n = 297), direct observations of human activities and pedestrian counting. A link between business types and the way the street is experienced emerged. Results also indicate that vacant and unproperly managed spaces negatively affect the desire to walk on main streets. Furthermore, pedestrian volumes coupled with the amount of static activities determined several benchmark conditions for lively street segments. This research provides recommendations for policy-making and design and planning practice for regeneration of industrial city centers undergoing commercial and spatial transformation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50700 - Social and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sustainability
ISSN
2071-1050
e-ISSN
2071-1050
Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
15
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
1-20
UT code for WoS article
000559040200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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