Facing accelerated urbanization and landscape alteration, cities expand on the territory showing better or worse relationships between built environment green spaces. Based recent literature review, this article discusses wedges, belts greenway planning models in order to evaluate their capability answering contemporary ecological social issues. The presents a conceptual overview of selected th...

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...

This study uses a boundary design and propensity score methods to the effects of 1930s-era Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) “redlining” maps on long-run trajectories urban neighborhoods. The led reduced home ownership rates, house values, rents increased racial segregation in later decades. A comparison either side city-level population cutoff that determined whether were drawn finds broadly...

Amsterdam’s immigrants from Caribbean and Southern Mediterranean origins have been characterized as modestly segregated from Dutch residents, and their residential assimilation has been expected to proceed rapidly. This conclusion applies better to immigrants from the former colonies of Surinam and the Antilles, while Turks and Moroccans face stronger barriers. Neighborhoods with significant co...

Spatial dependence exists when the variation between observations is dependent on spatial location. In the present study, geostatistical methods were used to examine spatial dependence in adolescents’ perceptions of their neighborhoods: whether adolescents living in close proximity perceived their neighborhoods more similarly than adolescents living further apart. Participants included 343 adol...

BACKGROUND A youths' neighborhood can play an important role in their physical, health, and emotional development. The prevalence of health risk behavior (HRB) in Czech youth such as smoking, drug and alcohol use is the highest in Europe. AIM To analyze differences in HRB in youth residents within different types of Prague's neighborhoods in relation to the perception of the built environment...

A common policy approach to reducing childhood obesity aims to shape the environment in which children spend most of their time: neighborhoods and schools. This paper uses richly detailed data on the body mass index (BMI) of all New York City public school students in grades K-8 to assess the potential for place-based approaches to reduce child obesity. We document variation in the prevalence o...

There is a growing consensus among urban analysts that inner-city neighborhoods suffer from a lack of social capital. Because these areas do not have a strong social infrastructure in place to support successful revitalization efforts, urban policy recommendations now call for developing social capital in the worst-off parts of our cities. However, this consensus has been reached without any em...

This article examines the experiences of 43 adolescents living in Denver, Colorado, from 1994 to 1996—the 2-year period following the peak of the youth violence epidemic. Where the dominant theories explaining inner-city violence tend to focus on disadvantaged communities, this study sampled youths from 5 neighborhoods with varying crime, poverty, family stability, and resident mobility rates. ...

This article explores patterns of police ”stop and frisk” activity across New York City neighborhoods. While “Broken Windows” theory may account for higher stop and frisk activity for “quality of life” crimes, the authors suggest neighborhood characteristics like racial composition, poverty levels, and extent of social disorganization are strong predictors of raceand crime-specific stops. The a...