Few researches have considered fear of crime as a context-specific experience. This article
promotes a place-based theoretical framework for studying crime perceptions through …

Background A safe environment has been widely accepted as one of the most important
walkability predictors. However, the relation between perceived safety and walkability has …

Introduction Studies have shown that perceived security discourages pedestrians from
walking, which in turn reduces physical activities and associated health benefits. However …

Urban fringe areas, characterized by relatively larger community sizes and lower population
densities compared to central areas, may lead to variations in walkability as well as gender …

Public participation and civic engagement in the urban planning process are societal trends
that stretch across countries, cultures, and classes. After decades of communist regimes in …

Urban green space (UGS) has important impacts on human health, but an integrated
participatory approach to UGS design for improved residents' health has been lacking to …

Background There has been a lack of research on the gender differences in spatial
attributes of adolescents' walking activity space (WAS). Moreover, while other literature …

The fear of crime is an established research topic, not only in sociology, environmental
psychology and criminology, but also in GIScience. Using spatial analysis to analyse …

We present a new spatial model to quantify and map health-related impacts of urban green
space (UGS), with the aim to address major shortcomings of existing models and to meet the …

The concept of topophobia has been known in Geography for decades. Places which evoke
fear in people's minds can be found in almost every city. The perception of fear within an …