Literature Review — Chart Export

This literature review traces the evolution from foundational observational studies of urban streets and public spaces by Jacobs, Gehl, Lynch, and Whyte toward contemporary systematic approaches combining qualitative design assessment with quantitative digital methods. Recent works by He, Karban, and Ferwati extend classical behavioral mapping into data-driven frameworks using machine learning and multi-criteria evaluation, though tension remains between algorithmic prediction and the lived experience of urban vitality that defined earlier scholarship.