The city is more than just a sum of its buildings; it is the sum of its communities. The most successful urban communities are very often those that are the most diverse–in terms of …
We investigate whether the design of the built environment encourages walking above and beyond individuals' attitudes toward walking. With data from a regional travel survey, we use …
Excessive land use and suburbanisation around densely populated urban areas has gone hand in hand with a growth in overall transportation and discussions about causality of traffic …
DW Sohn, AV Moudon, J Lee - Urban Design International, 2012 - Springer
This study investigated how the benefits of a walkable neighborhood were reflected in the American real estate market by examining the economic values of urban environmental …
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of the 2009 food package changes for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on the availability …
Obesity is a growing epidemic in the United States. Walkable neighborhoods, characterized as having the three Ds of walkability (population Density, land use Diversity, and pedestrian …
N Larco, B Steiner, J Stockard… - Environment and …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines the relationship of the built environment to physical activity in suburban multifamily housing developments in a medium-sized city, testing Alfonzo's (2005) …
To generalize the relationship between density and travel behavior, previous research proceeded with three approaches: metropolitan-level studies describing tendencies on an …
A Nasri, L Zhang - Transportation Research Record, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
There has been growing recognition of the significant impact that land use patterns have on travel behavior; changes in built environment patterns could potentially be considered as a …