The article begins with a discussion of the rationale for studying the relationship between
residential environments and cardiovascular health. Existing empirical research relating …

Purpose. To determine the relationship between urban sprawl, health, and health-related
behaviors. Design. Cross-sectional analysis using hierarchical modeling to relate …

This article presents an empirical study of the relationship between neighborhood-scale
urban form and travel behavior. It focuses on households who relocate within the Central …

The overarching goal of this article is to make explicit the multiple pathways through which
the built environment may potentially affect health and well-being. The loss of close …

This study tests the New Urbanist claims that placing amenities such as parks and retail
shops within walking distance of homes will increase pedestrian travel and thereby increase …

People who walk for transportation or pleasure face many challenges in the physical
environment. Many people in the US want to walk for utilitarian, health, or recreation …

Many land use-transportation planning proposals aim to create neighborhoods with higher
levels of neighborhood accessibility (NA). This article focuses on how such features are …

Centrality within a city and neighborhood characteristics have often been used as indicators
of access to employment and services in statements about urban form and accessibility, but …

The growing emphasis on promoting environmental change as a means to increase
physical activity has motivated conversation and collaboration between researchers and …

Distance has often been assumed to be an influence on intraurban accessibility, whether in
traditional proximity-based measures of accessibility, or through expectations about distance …