BACKGROUND Understanding residential mobility in early childhood is important for contextualizing influences on child health and well-being. OBJECTIVE This study describes individual, household, and neighborhood characteristics associated with residential mobility for children aged 0-5. METHODS We examined longitudinal data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), ...

Population growth and rapid urbanization have consequences that are reflected in the economic, environmental, social stability of city-residential neighborhoods. These impacts directly affect not only residents but also real estate markets local governments. The professionals working latter entities become increasingly concerned about urban sustainability its strategic integration into their pl...

Human exposure to excessively warm weather, especially in cities, is an increasingly important public health problem. This study examined heat-related health inequalities within one city in order to understand the relationships between the microclimates of urban neighborhoods, population characteristics, thermal environments that regulate microclimates, and the resources people possess to cope ...

Among the factors influencing the learning and developmental processes that lead to educational achievement, most scientists believe that the social environment plays a significant role. The importance of residential location in affecting children's education, however, is subject on which there is conflicting evidence and little agreement. Given the increase in the spatial concentration of pove...

This paper investigates the relationship between metropolitan area growth, inequality, and segregation by income across neighborhoods. I propose a simple model based on the notion that rising income inequality creates housing market pressure leading to residential segregation by income. However, because different income groups live in different types of houses, the housing stock must change if ...

Fast growing population, excessive expansion of cities, and dominance of automobile in urban life have troubled cities with complicated traffic problems. In many parts of the world, transport network development has always been considered as a solution for this problem. Apparently, one-dimensional ‘traffic solutions’ would never thoroughly bring best results as the city and its problems are com...

OBJECTIVE Lifestyle interventions for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are best positioned for success if participants live in supportive neighborhood environments. Deprived neighborhoods increase T2DM risk. Parks and other "green spaces" promote active lifestyles and therefore may reduce T2DM risk. We investigated association between neighborhood green space and the risk of T2DM in a large grou...

The housing search process is an overlooked mechanism in the scholarly research that seeks to understand the causes of persistent racial residential segregation in the United States. Past research has explored in detail the preferences people hold in terms of the racial and ethnic composition of their neighborhoods, and more recently some have also examined the correspondence between racial and...

This research is done with an aim to compare the quality of housing in the two common appartment form on the rendering of main indexes of housing quality through two pre-designed neighbourhoods of Haft HozNeighborhood and the first phase of Ekbatan residential complex in the city of Tehran. Indexes of housing quality are extracted from the internal and external resources and are subjected to qu...