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Record W4406802869 · doi:10.18280/ijsdp.200125

Accessibility as a Method of Measuring Urban Legibility

2025· article· en· W4406802869 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Rashaa Malik Musa

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUrbanization and City Planning
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLegibilityComputer scienceTransport engineeringArchitectural engineeringEnvironmental scienceEngineeringBusinessAdvertising

Abstract

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Spatial knowledge will always be a complicated and ambiguous issue.Urban legibility is one of the most important issues related to spatial knowledge.The spatial knowledge and mental images are affected by the dynamic nature of urban spaces, and this fact shaped the definition of the legibility of urban spaces.Accessibility of urban paths and linking urban nodes increase clarity and image ability in urban areas.The frequent use of urban space, especially paths, enhances the ability to read visual elements, so ease of access is a key variable in determining the percentages of use of the path and type of movement in it.The importance of this subject arises from the need to re-create "place" within the urban spaces of contemporary cities, specifically urban links and public paths that direct to and link main landmarks, as the paths represent a large percentage of urban spaces within the centers of contemporary cities.This study aimed to build a model of assessment that expresses the relationship between the accessibility of urban paths and their legibility.This study assumes that legibility is related by its objective aspect to accessibility and aims to measure legibility in urban links ("River of Hila as a case study").The suggested model tries to express the relationship between the accessibility of urban paths and their legibility.This will be reviewed through three levels of intersected measurements that link legibility and accessibility.According to the results of testing the levels of intersected indicators, path [C-3] achieved the highest values according to the survey and questionnaire in the field study.The methodology adopted to achieve the main goal of this research is divided into two parts: 1) Determining the procedural definitions of the study vocabulary, visual legibility and accessibility.2) Determining the basics of the conceptual link between the concepts of visual legibility, and accessibility.3) Building the intellectual model that will regulate the measurement framework and its indicators.4) The final part of this methodology will be the framework structure of intersection indicators and the results of the applied study.

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.024

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0100.009
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.004
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.360
Teacher spread0.327 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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