Metro Detroit: residential location and neighbourhood perceptions

Association between parental perceptions of residential neighbourhood environments and childhood obesity in Porto, Portugal.

BACKGROUND Portugal has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in Europe. Few studies have explored the relationship between parents' perceptions of their residential neighbourhood (safety concerns and amenities of the built environment) and their children's weight status. This study aims to examine the associations between parents' perceptions of their residential neighbourhood and over...

Ethnic Residential Segregation in a Multiethnic Metro

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Neighbourhood attainment and residential segregation among

The social complexion of Toronto’s urban landscape has been irreversibly altered since the 1960s as new waves of migrants from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Central and South America have replaced traditional white European migrant flows. We examine the very different residential settlement patterns of Toronto’s three largest racial minorities – Blacks, Chinese and South Asians. Unlike previ...

metro and its effect on residential property prices (tehran)

this study estimates the residential property prices in tehran using hedonic price functions and spatial econometrics. the newly employed method is extending the analysis to the neighbourhood level (361 sectors) using the city's planning and gis tools. the results show that the spatial econometric model has higher identification than the simple econometric model. the distance between the c...

Implementation of a Comprehensive Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Treatment Program in Metro-Detroit