A growing literature has indicated a relationship between social capital and certain aspects
of the built environment with contributions from various disciplines, including environmental …

Compact, mixed-use, and walk-friendly urban development, many contend, can significantly
influence the modes people choose to travel. Despite a voluminous empirical literature, most …

Some claim that cardependent cities contribute to obesity by discouraging walking and
bicycling. In this article, we use household activity data from the San Francisco region to …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be the leading cause of death and a major
source of health disparities in the Unites States and globally. Efforts to reduce CVD risk and …

In the book, authors Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson examine the
direct and indirect impacts of sprawl on human health and well-being, and discuss the …

This study determines whether transit-oriented development (TOD) planning factors
identified from western case studies can be applied to the city of Seoul, Korea, which is …

Transportation expert Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus on the
underlying geometry that all transit systems share. In Human Transit, Revised Edition, he …

In recent years, interest in the travel behavior of students in institutions of higher education
has grown. It has been noted that students tend to use a variety of transportation modes …

Public bicycle-sharing programs (PBSP) are short-term bicycle hire systems. In recent years
their popularity has soared. This study examined Brisbane's CityCycle scheme, the largest …

This paper develops a set of quantitative variables to characterise urban forms at the
metropolitan level and, in particular, to distinguish compactness from'sprawl'. It first reviews …