Leading flood loss estimation models include Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Hazus, FEMA’s Flood Assessment Structure Tool (FAST), and (U.S.) Hydrologic Engineering Center’s Impact Analysis (HEC-FIA), with each requiring different data input. No research to date has compared the resulting outcomes from such at a neighborhood scale. This examines building content estimates by Hazu...

The Schelling model describing segregation between two groups of residential agents, reflects the most abstract, basic view of noneconomic forces motivating residential migrations: be close to people of ‘‘your own’’ kind. The model assumes that residential agents, located in neighborhoods where the fraction of ‘‘friends’’ is less than a predefined threshold value F, try to relocate to neighborh...

Today’s housing, as a private realm of human life, has changed in comparison with the past which was made regardless of quality, desirability, and lack of paying attention to the human needs and its psychological consequences; That is to say, residential units have turned into a set of closed spaces and their open and semi-open spaces have been merged into the urban spaces which disrupted their...

The authors examine the research evidence on the effect of residential segregation on health, identify research gaps, and propose new research directions. Four recommendations are made on the basis of a review of the sociological and social epidemiology literature on residential segregation: (1) develop multilevel research designs to examine the effects of individual, neighborhood, and metropol...

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), ...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated links between cardiovascular disease and physical inactivity and poor air quality, which are both associated with neighborhood greenness. However, no studies have directly investigated neighborhood greenness in relation to coronary heart disease risk. We investigated the effect of neighborhood greenness on both self-reported and hospital admissions ...

Measurements of neighborhood exposures likely vary depending on the definition of "neighborhood" selected. This study examined the extent to which neighborhood definition influences findings regarding spatial accessibility to tobacco retailers among youth. We defined spatial accessibility to tobacco retailers (i.e., tobacco retail density, closest tobacco retailer, and average distance to the c...

Optimization of existing measurement tools is necessary to explore links between aspects of the neighborhood built environment and health behaviors or outcomes. We evaluate a scoring method for virtual neighborhood audits utilizing the Active Neighborhood Checklist (the Checklist), a neighborhood audit measure, and assess street segment representativeness in low-income neighborhoods. Eighty-two...

Since the 1980s, income inequality and residential segregation have increased in industrialized and developing countries. There is a body of literature that hypothesizes and examines the relationship between inequality and segregation on health. However, none of these studies constructs a mathematical model to explain these complex linkages. This project builds a theoretical behavioral model th...

This paper examines the influence of residential zoning and subdivision regulations on the extent and distribution of impervious land cover in Madison, WI. Specifically, an analysis of approximately 40,000 single-family residential parcels in the Madison region is presented to assess the impact of land development regulations governing lot size, lot frontage, front yard setbacks, street width, ...