OBJECTIVE We investigated the independent association between several neighbourhood built environment features and physical inactivity within a national sample of Canadian youth, and estimated the proportion of inactivity within the population that was attributable to these built environment features. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of 6626 youth aged 11-15 years from 272 schools acr...

BACKGROUND Built environment features of neighborhoods may be related to obesity among adolescents and potentially related to obesity-related health disparities. The purpose of this study was to investigate spatial relationships between various built environment features and body mass index (BMI) z-score among adolescents, and to investigate if race/ethnicity modifies these relationships. A sec...

OBJECTIVES Detailed assessments of the built environment often resist data reduction and summarization. This project sought to develop a method of reducing built environment data to an extent that they can be effectively communicated to researchers and community stakeholders. We aim to help in an understanding of how these data can be used to create neighbourhood groupings based on built enviro...

persian garden design is one of the main elements in the architecture and landscaping in iran and the whole lands influenced by the iranian culture. this phenomenon has always been present in iranians' life and they have had a close connection to this ancient tradition. hence, it can be said that persian garden design is one of the most crucial features in shaping landscape, in particular,...