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Dalit SHACH-PINSLY, is an architect and urban designer who received her Ph.D at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion–IIT. She is currently a researcher and senior lecturer at the Technion–IIT. She was a Partner Investigator in the H2020-MG-9.2-2014 MIND-SETS - Mobility Innovations for a New Dawn in Sustainable Transport Systems. She was a senior researcher of FP7-DESURBS-EU-Designing Safer Urban Spaces. Formerly she joined the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington as a post-doctoral fellow sponsored by the competitive Marie Curie EU IOF Fellowship (2008-2011). Fields of interests: built environment, urban regeneration, measuring and evaluating diverse qualitative aspects of the urban environment, such as security and safety, visibility and privacy; master plan, analysis, methods and tools.
Participation of older adults in daily activities has a major positive impact on health and contributes to a sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, self-efficacy, and well-being. Walking is considered to be one of the most influential activities promoting health and active living. Older adults are particularly vulnerable to their immediate local environment where age- related declined capabilities combined with barriers in the home neighborhood pose a risk of falling and fear of falls. Most research focusing on the built environment role in incidents of older adults' outdoor falls and fear of falls is focused on identifying the environmental features' risk factors. Effort is made to develop audit checklist tools to assess out-door falls risk. In contrast, this study focuses on the manifestation of fear of falls in older adults' walking activity spaces. We identify spatial walking patterns of outdoor daily activities in public urban spaces and examine the relations between fear of falls, risk of falling status, previous occurrence of fall incidents and number of medical diagnoses and walking activity spaces among older adults in different urban environments. The analysis included 271 older adults (age 60+ with 70% females and 30% males), and 483 walking routes in three cities. A psychological measure related to mobility self-efficacy was evaluated by the Falls Efficacy Scale examining the fear of falling through a functional perspective. Motor evaluation was conducted by functional mobility evaluation through the Timed Up and Go (TUG) screening test which assesses the level of risk of falling. GIS analysis was conducted for mapping and identifying walking activity spaces. The analysis shows different walking activity spaces of people with high risk of falling and fear of falls in comparison to those with no risk and no fear of falling across gender and age groups (60–65, 66–74, and 75+). In this approach we show the outcome reflection of barriers and enablers and their revealed cumulative effect through walking activity spaces among older adults.
Pnina Plaut; Dalit Shach-Pinsly; Naomi Schreuer; Rachel Kizony. The reflection of the fear of falls and risk of falling in walking activity spaces of older adults in various urban environments. Journal of Transport Geography 2021, 95, 103152 .
AMA StylePnina Plaut, Dalit Shach-Pinsly, Naomi Schreuer, Rachel Kizony. The reflection of the fear of falls and risk of falling in walking activity spaces of older adults in various urban environments. Journal of Transport Geography. 2021; 95 ():103152.
Chicago/Turabian StylePnina Plaut; Dalit Shach-Pinsly; Naomi Schreuer; Rachel Kizony. 2021. "The reflection of the fear of falls and risk of falling in walking activity spaces of older adults in various urban environments." Journal of Transport Geography 95, no. : 103152.
Current urban planning of central neighborhoods is focused on mobility transformation towards more sustainable methods of public transportation and walkability that increase social interactions. Central urban neighborhoods in many cities may suffer from deterioration due to lack of personal security that result in diminished walkability. The lack of personal security might exclude residents from those areas and create a troublesome circle of deterioration, and may emphasize spatial inequality. It may also establish different patterns of the neighborhood infrastructure usage for different social groups, such as using specifically more secure streets and public spaces. The main goal of this paper is to define the routes and spaces where people walk and use in their neighborhoods in which they feel safe, and to understand how different social groups walk-through and use the same urban environment. This is analyzed by the security rating index (SRI) model, a GIS-based mapping model, which is used to identify and rate secure urban areas for better walkability. The SRI results are compared to an interview, which was given to different social-group representatives, urban data that was collected using a mobile application, and to vandalism data analysis from the municipality. The security and walkability analysis assessment took place in the Hadar neighborhood in Haifa, Israel.
Dalit Shach-Pinsly; Tamar Ganor. A New Approach for Assessing Secure and Vulnerable Areas in Central Urban Neighborhoods Based on Social-Groups’ Analysis. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1174 .
AMA StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly, Tamar Ganor. A New Approach for Assessing Secure and Vulnerable Areas in Central Urban Neighborhoods Based on Social-Groups’ Analysis. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (3):1174.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly; Tamar Ganor. 2021. "A New Approach for Assessing Secure and Vulnerable Areas in Central Urban Neighborhoods Based on Social-Groups’ Analysis." Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1174.
The performance of the built environment is an important concern affecting the quality of life and plays a critical role in every urban milieu. However, it generally disappears in the drawing plans. Current planning regulations do not always include performance requirements as part of the planning demands. Additionally, decision-makers lack the methodology and tools to demonstrate the expected performance of the built environment. Therefore, an examination of the performance of the designed area is sometimes neglected in the planning process. Current urban plans focus mainly on technical issues, counting the number of residential units, density measures, etc. The trend of progressive planning regulations, such as Form-Based Code (FBC), aims to coordinate these separated quantitative parameters into one comprehensive 3D plan where the urban form plays as a main integrator. However, these plans still lack the demand for understanding the quality and performance of the built environment through the visualization. This article addresses this gap, the lack of understanding of the performance of the built environment in urban plans and proposes the concept of Performance-Based Codes (PBC). The transition from form-based code to performance-based-design will be demonstrated through the presentation of two performance-based models, the Solar Envelope and Security Rating Index, and the possibility of integrating them into the planning process.
Dalit Shach-Pinsly; Isaac Capeluto. From Form-Based to Performance-Based Codes. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5657 .
AMA StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly, Isaac Capeluto. From Form-Based to Performance-Based Codes. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (14):5657.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly; Isaac Capeluto. 2020. "From Form-Based to Performance-Based Codes." Sustainability 12, no. 14: 5657.
A key determinant of healthy aging is active participation in daily activities. This study proposes a model that explains participation of community-dwelling older adults. The model examines travel attitudes and mobility behaviors as mediating factors between personal characteristics and participation in out-of-home daily activities. A cross-sectional study was conducted among older adults (N = 277; M = 75.17 years, SD = 6.90; 68.3% women). Participation was measured by the Activity Card Sort, and travel attitudes and mobility behaviors by a questionnaire. The proposed model was analyzed by the Structural Equation Model (SEM) using AMOS software and PROCESS analysis. The SEM yielded a goodness-of-fit between the observed model and the structural proposed model [χ2(51) = 76.52; p = .012; N = 277; χ2/df = 1.50]. This model explained 41% of the variance in the older adults' participation, with good indicators (normed fit index = 0.907, comparative fit index = 0.965, and root mean square error of approximation = .043). PROCESS analysis confirmed the central significant role that driving and attitudes towards using public transportation and walking plays in mediating between older adults' personal characteristics (e.g., age and gender) and their participation. Our findings further underpin the importance of enabling older adults to use any available transportation modes to maintain their participation levels in out-of-home activities. Attitudes toward walking or using public transportation significantly affect their use of transportation modes to maintain their participation. Therefore, interventions should include improving public transportation accessibility, together with enhancing older adults’ attitudes towards using it.
Rachel Kizony; Naomi Schreuer; Shlomit Rotenberg; Dalit Shach-Pinsly; Gary Sinoff; Pnina Plaut. Participation in out-of-home activities among older adults: The role of mobility, attitudes and travel behaviors. Journal of Transport & Health 2020, 17, 100846 .
AMA StyleRachel Kizony, Naomi Schreuer, Shlomit Rotenberg, Dalit Shach-Pinsly, Gary Sinoff, Pnina Plaut. Participation in out-of-home activities among older adults: The role of mobility, attitudes and travel behaviors. Journal of Transport & Health. 2020; 17 ():100846.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRachel Kizony; Naomi Schreuer; Shlomit Rotenberg; Dalit Shach-Pinsly; Gary Sinoff; Pnina Plaut. 2020. "Participation in out-of-home activities among older adults: The role of mobility, attitudes and travel behaviors." Journal of Transport & Health 17, no. : 100846.
The focus of this study is on the ability of morphometrics and building pattern recognition to improve top-down urban renewal processes by identifying post-Second World War mass housing suitable for urban renewal. We used two conceptual frameworks: the first from the field of urban design and architecture and the second from the field of multi-parametric analysis and geographic information system. A survey of a sample of typical post-Second World War mass housing units based on historical blueprints was developed to identify geometric indicators. The geometric indicators were transformed into a geographic information system parametric model for the identification of post-Second World War mass housing units and sites in current urban plans on a city scale. The model was implemented in the city of Haifa, Israel, as a case study. The analysis results indicate 1288 buildings in 283 urban sites suitable for urban renewal, 10% of the present city’s housing stock.
Idan Porat; Dalit Shach-Pinsly. Building morphometric analysis as a tool for urban renewal: Identifying post-Second World War mass public housing development potential. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 2019, 48, 248 -264.
AMA StyleIdan Porat, Dalit Shach-Pinsly. Building morphometric analysis as a tool for urban renewal: Identifying post-Second World War mass public housing development potential. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 2019; 48 (2):248-264.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIdan Porat; Dalit Shach-Pinsly. 2019. "Building morphometric analysis as a tool for urban renewal: Identifying post-Second World War mass public housing development potential." Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 48, no. 2: 248-264.
Designing secured urban spaces is one of the main ambitions of urban planners during the planning and design process. People usually travel by foot through safe routes and urban spaces in the built environment as they are perceived as safe areas, such as: lighted paths, walking on the livable side of a sidewalk instead of walking beside a sealed façade, or away from unsecured building entrances. The way people use and interact in their built environment involves their cognitive perception, which depends upon the urban fabric details. Therefore, planners and decision makers aimed in understanding the way the components of the built environment affect unsecured environments so as to assess the risks before design decisions are made. However, they lack new approaches and models with which to evaluate a qualitative sense of security that is understandable on a human-scale in the built environment. This research deals with this gap in information and measures one unmeasurable qualitative aspect of the built environment, the sense of security, in quantitative terms based on a geo-spatial system, and then relate it to human-scale urban form. The Security Rating Index (SRI) establishes a GIS-based, quantifiable system to identify and rate insecure urban spaces to be used by urban planners and city decision makers to evaluate and improve urban resilience. The system is based on measurements of urban elements that influence the sense of security in the built environment, and can be used to identify characteristics and hot spots of unsecured spaces in a city. The SRI is demonstrated on several case studies on different scales.
Dalit Shach-Pinsly. Measuring security in the built environment: Evaluating urban vulnerability in a human-scale urban form. Landscape and Urban Planning 2018, 191, 103412 .
AMA StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly. Measuring security in the built environment: Evaluating urban vulnerability in a human-scale urban form. Landscape and Urban Planning. 2018; 191 ():103412.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly. 2018. "Measuring security in the built environment: Evaluating urban vulnerability in a human-scale urban form." Landscape and Urban Planning 191, no. : 103412.
Daniel Orenstein; Dalit Shach-Pinsly. A Comparative Framework for Assessing Sustainability Initiatives at the Regional Scale. World Development 2017, 98, 245 -256.
AMA StyleDaniel Orenstein, Dalit Shach-Pinsly. A Comparative Framework for Assessing Sustainability Initiatives at the Regional Scale. World Development. 2017; 98 ():245-256.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDaniel Orenstein; Dalit Shach-Pinsly. 2017. "A Comparative Framework for Assessing Sustainability Initiatives at the Regional Scale." World Development 98, no. : 245-256.
The planning process in a planning studio demonstrates a microcosm of diverse concepts of ideologies and identities seeking acknowledgment and spatial recognition. In the modern world of multiple and dynamic identities and ideologies, aspiring for the self-recognition of regions, towns, and communities, a place-based identity has become a core aspect that needs to be taken into planning consideration. The analytic planning method used is iterative of both top–down and bottom–up approaches, thereby creating multi-dimension and coherent planning alternatives where spatial solutions arise from communities along their changing processes. We present two spatial alternative plans that were developed in the studio course and are based on this line of thinking. Results were very dynamic aspiring complex plans, which are also highly applicable and flexible, thereby addressing a wide range of ideologies and identities.
Dalit Shach-Pinsly; Idan Porat. Multi-identity planning process in a studio course: Integrative planning in multi-identity environments. Frontiers of Architectural Research 2016, 5, 279 -289.
AMA StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly, Idan Porat. Multi-identity planning process in a studio course: Integrative planning in multi-identity environments. Frontiers of Architectural Research. 2016; 5 (3):279-289.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly; Idan Porat. 2016. "Multi-identity planning process in a studio course: Integrative planning in multi-identity environments." Frontiers of Architectural Research 5, no. 3: 279-289.
Designing safer and secured urban areas is one of the main aspirations of urban designers and city decision makers, in order to control both existing and developed urban environments. Hence, stakeholders and decision makers are required to understand and assess the risks before decisions are made. In addition, many researchers note that security risks are integrated components within the urban environment and point out diverse urban elements, which greatly affect various security risks in urban environments. When evaluating security in urban fabrics, however, it appears that there is a lack of quantitative models and tools available for use by urban designers and planners to measure and rate urban environments and determine their vulnerability objectively. The research presented here emerged from this gap of information and demonstrates a geographic information system-based mapping system to identify and rate high-risk or insecure urban areas, to be used by designers. The system is based on measurements of urban parameters as they relate to security, employing urban morphology analysis. Designing safer and secured urban areas is one of the main aspirations of urban designers and city decision makers, in order to control both existing and developed urban environments. Hence, stakeholders and decision makers are required to understand and assess the risks before decisions are made. In addition, many researchers note that security risks are integrated components within the urban environment and point out diverse urban elements, which greatly affect various security risks in urban environments. When evaluating security in urban fabrics, however, it appears that there is a lack of quantitative models and tools available for use by urban designers and planners to measure and rate urban environments and determine their vulnerability objectively. The research presented here emerged from this gap of information and demonstrates a geographic information system-based mapping system to identify and rate high-risk or insecure urban areas, to be used by designers. The system is based on measurements of urban parameters as they relate to security, employing urban morphology analysis.
Dalit Shach-Pinsly; Tamar Ganor. Security sensitivity index: evaluating urban vulnerability. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning 2015, 168, 115 -128.
AMA StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly, Tamar Ganor. Security sensitivity index: evaluating urban vulnerability. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning. 2015; 168 (3):115-128.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly; Tamar Ganor. 2015. "Security sensitivity index: evaluating urban vulnerability." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning 168, no. 3: 115-128.
Smart homes are residences equipped innovative technologies: sensors, wired and wireless networks, actuators and intelligent systems. The smart home concept has developed rapidly since the early 1990s. Yet, after almost more than two decades, the prevalence of smart homes is still limited and has not taken off on a large scale even though many people consider it to constitute ‘future living’. This review article aims to bridge the knowledge gap between the disciplines of computing, architecture and health care, in order to provide architects, designers and planners with an integrative overview of the smart home, its technologies, objectives, problems and obstacles, including suggestions for overcoming these obstacles and the possible implications on our future living.
N. Bitterman; Dalit Shach-Pinsly. Smart home – a challenge for architects and designers. Architectural Science Review 2015, 58, 266 -274.
AMA StyleN. Bitterman, Dalit Shach-Pinsly. Smart home – a challenge for architects and designers. Architectural Science Review. 2015; 58 (3):266-274.
Chicago/Turabian StyleN. Bitterman; Dalit Shach-Pinsly. 2015. "Smart home – a challenge for architects and designers." Architectural Science Review 58, no. 3: 266-274.
Dalit Shach-Pinsly; Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman; Michael Burt. Visual Exposure and Visual Openness: An Integrated Approach and Comparative Evaluation. Journal of Urban Design 2011, 16, 233 -256.
AMA StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly, Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman, Michael Burt. Visual Exposure and Visual Openness: An Integrated Approach and Comparative Evaluation. Journal of Urban Design. 2011; 16 (2):233-256.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly; Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman; Michael Burt. 2011. "Visual Exposure and Visual Openness: An Integrated Approach and Comparative Evaluation." Journal of Urban Design 16, no. 2: 233-256.
This paper reports on the preliminary development of visibility analysis models used as evaluation tools during the urban design development process. This paper proposes a measurable morphological approach that can contribute to the planning and design process as a control and evaluation model. The models are applied to an urban case study that is based on the garden city theory. The complex being evaluated is the Bat‐Galim neighborhood, located on the northern shore of Haifa, Israel that was constructed in the middle of the last century. The goal is to try to overcome the problematic results and to suggest other spatial morphological configurations that support better results. Doing so improves the quality of the environment with respect to visual permeability.
Dalit Shach-Pinsly. Visual openness and visual exposure analysis models used as evaluation tools during the urban design development process. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability 2010, 3, 161 -184.
AMA StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly. Visual openness and visual exposure analysis models used as evaluation tools during the urban design development process. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. 2010; 3 (2):161-184.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly. 2010. "Visual openness and visual exposure analysis models used as evaluation tools during the urban design development process." Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability 3, no. 2: 161-184.
Dalit Shach-Pinsly; Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman; Michael Burt. ‘Visual exposure’ analysis model: a comparative evaluation of three case studies. URBAN DESIGN International 2007, 12, 155 -168.
AMA StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly, Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman, Michael Burt. ‘Visual exposure’ analysis model: a comparative evaluation of three case studies. URBAN DESIGN International. 2007; 12 (2-3):155-168.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDalit Shach-Pinsly; Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman; Michael Burt. 2007. "‘Visual exposure’ analysis model: a comparative evaluation of three case studies." URBAN DESIGN International 12, no. 2-3: 155-168.
URBAN DESIGN International is a scholarly publication with a strong practitioner emphasis. It is relevant for all of those involved in architectural and planning education and practice. It is relevant for urban designers, architects, planners, surveyors and landscape architects and all professionals concerned with urban development and design.
Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman; Dalit Shach-Pinsly; Israel A Wagner; Michael Burt. View-oriented three-dimensional visual analysis models for the urban environment. URBAN DESIGN International 2005, 10, 23 -37.
AMA StyleDafna Fisher-Gewirtzman, Dalit Shach-Pinsly, Israel A Wagner, Michael Burt. View-oriented three-dimensional visual analysis models for the urban environment. URBAN DESIGN International. 2005; 10 (1):23-37.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDafna Fisher-Gewirtzman; Dalit Shach-Pinsly; Israel A Wagner; Michael Burt. 2005. "View-oriented three-dimensional visual analysis models for the urban environment." URBAN DESIGN International 10, no. 1: 23-37.