Pedestrian activity is a cornerstone for urban sustainability, with key implications the environment, public health, social cohesion, and local economy. Therefore, city planners, designers, decision-makers require tools to predict pedestrian mobility assess walkability of existing or planned environments. For this purpose, diverse approaches have been used analyze different inputs such as stree...

Outlier detection methods have used approximate neighborhoods in filter-refinement approaches. Outlier detection ensembles have used artificially obfuscated neighborhoods to achieve diverse ensemble members. Here we argue that outlier detection models could be based on approximate neighborhoods in the first place, thus gaining in both efficiency and effectiveness. It depends, however, on the ty...

The paper by Veling and colleagues in the January issue (1) adds a critical piece of information to the schizophrenia literature, explaining the curious finding that the incidence of schizophrenia increases in individuals who emigrate to a new country. The authors used a clever epidemiological design to explore an association between the incidence of schizophrenia in immigrants and the ethnic d...

A long-standing contradiction has posed a critical puzzle to urban sociologists: On the one hand, a wealth of ethnographic studies make the point that the kinds of neighborhoods people inhabit profoundly shape their fortunes; on the other hand, statistical analyses of “neighborhood effects” have often failed to confirm that claim. From the earliest studies of the Chicago School, through classic...

One of the most important factors affecting conditions in an urban neighborhood is the number of banks, clinics, grocery stores, recreation centers, and other commercial and nonprofit establishments—i.e., its organizational density. The “deinstitutionalized ghetto” hypothesis, based largely on research in the city of Chicago, has argued that the loss of organizational density is a major consequ...

the neighborhood has had a long history in iranian urbanization. since urban plans wereintroduced by the authorities to shape urban development in iran half a century ago, the concept of iranian traditional neighborhood has been neglected gradually. the concept of neighborhood has not found the appropriate status in urban design and planning yet. one of the main reasons is that academics, profe...

The surge in housing prices cities has triggered the emergence of many problems related to urban settlements, starting from construction that is far city center, congestion problems, pollution, encouraging occurrence informal slum settlements. This causes a shift settlements supporting areas, especially Jabodetabek. Residential are dominantly influenced by high land prices. Infrastructure devel...

We contribute to the evaluation of urban renewal policies based on a large-scale program launched in France 2004. Using an estimator aimed at avoiding bias estimation treatment effects that are heterogeneous across groups or time periods, and complementing its results with more precise double fixed difference-in-differences estimator, we find no significant aggregate impact housing prices. iden...

What are the neighborhoods in this city like? This is a question that movers and travelers ask all the time, and despite the information sources on the internet, there are few neighborhood guides to help people answer it. We describe formative research, including the Twitter Neighborhood TF-IDF map and an interviewbased study of 17 recent movers and travelers. Based on this research, we then de...