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Neighborhood Aesthetics are considered important for enhancing the physical activity among people and gated neighborhoods have more aesthetical features than non-gated. The objective of this study is to compare the association of perceived aesthetics and perception of physical activity (PoPA) in gated and non-gated neighborhoods in develo** countries. Sixteen neighborhoods and 1042 participants were selected from Karachi, Pakistan. Results show that both the perceived aesthetics and PoPA are significantly higher and dependent on each other in gated neighborhoods than non-gated neighborhoods of develo** countries. Therefore, it can be concluded that the future neighborhoods should have aesthetical feature for encouraging PA.
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The Metabolic Equivalent of Task (MET), or simply metabolic equivalent, is a physiological measure expressing the energy cost of physical activities and is defined as the ratio of metabolic rate (and therefore the rate of energy consumption) during a specific physical activity to a reference metabolic rate, set by convention to 3.5 ml O2 kg−1 min−1 or equivalently:
\(1\,{\text{MET}} = 1\frac{{{\text{kcal}}}}{{{\text{kg}}*{\text{h}}}} = 4.184\frac{{{\text{kJ}}}}{{{\text{kg}}*{\text{h}}}}\)
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Gul, Y., Jokhio, G.A., Bibi, T., Zaidi, S.M. (2022). The Association of Neighbourhood Aesthetics with Physical Activity in Gated and Non-gated Neighbourhoods in Develo** Countries. In: Kang, T., Lee, Y. (eds) Proceedings of 2021 4th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 201. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6932-3_41
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