Nascent research documents that U.S. racial segregation is not merely a residential phenomenon but present in everyday mobility patterns. Better understanding the causes of mobility-based requires disentangling spatial macrosegregation, which constitutes an obvious confounding factor. In this work, author analyzes big data on visits between 270 million neighborhood dyads to estimate effect comp...

PURPOSE Previous research on the influence of the food environment on weight status has often used impersonal measures of the food environment defined for residential neighborhoods, which ignore whether people actually use the food outlets near their residence. To assess whether supermarkets are relevant contexts for interventions, the present study explored between-residential neighborhood and...

Using detailed data on friendship networks within neighborhoods, we investigate the importance of social interactions in one’s own residential neighborhood in the demand for housing quality. We find evidence consistent with the presence of peer effects, especially for households living in urban areas. Our findings are in line with the prediction of a model where conformity preferences underlie ...

H ow much do neighborhoods affect our life outcomes? This question, which has been long debated and researched, is especially significant when assessing problems and solutions related to residential segregation. Since post-WWII suburbanization, the segregation of black and white households has been a staple of U.S. residential patterns. One of the major issues related to segregation is not simp...

The prerequisites of transition from the typology high-rise residential development dormitory districts, remote epicenter urban activity, to mixed functionality, interpreting morphological and symbolic codes metropolis historical heritage are considered. criticism modernist strategy is based on understanding functional zoning as an excessively rigid model city. historic environment with its hie...

Organization of living environment is possible through a clear definition of private and public arenas and determinationof a spatial hierarchy. Such defined arenas increase the sense of belonging to the environment which personalizesresidential environments. Enclosure is among the quantities that play a significant role in defining the spaces. In fact,enclosure is the factor that defines a spac...

Growing evidence suggests that microscale pedestrian environment features, such as sidewalk quality, crosswalks, and neighborhood aesthetics, may affect residents' physical activity. This study examined whether disparities in microscale pedestrian features existed between neighborhoods of differing socioeconomic and racial/ethnic composition. Using the validated Microscale Audit of Pedestrian S...

BACKGROUND Studies involving the built environment have typically relied on US Census data to measure residential density. However, census geographic units are often unsuited to health-related research, especially in rural areas where development is clustered and discontinuous. OBJECTIVE We evaluated the accuracy of both standard census methods and alternative GIS-based methods to measure rur...