نتایج جستجو برای: city neighborhoods

تعداد نتایج: 162393  

2007
Naa Oyo Kwate

This study investigated correlates of outdoor advertising panel density in predominantly African American neighborhoods in New York City. Research shows that black neighborhoods have more outdoor advertising space than white neighborhoods, and these spaces disproportionately market alcohol and tobacco advertisements. Thus, understanding the factors associated with outdoor advertising panel dens...

2017
Amanda Agan Sonja Starr Louisa Eberle Reid Murdoch Emma Ward

This paper uses evidence from a large field experiment to explore whether the racial composition of employers’ neighborhoods, as well as other neighborhood and business characteristics, predicts racially discriminatory employment decisions. Over 15,000 fictitious job applications were sent, in otherwise-similar black and white pairs, to low-skill job postings distributed throughout New Jersey a...

2010
Don Boyd Jim Wyckoff

INTRODUCTION A substantial body of research demonstrates that schools with large populations of poor, non-white and low-achieving students, on average have more difficulty attracting and retaining 2007). However, little work assesses the extent to which differences in the neighborhoods in which schools are located either affect teacher recruitment and retention or explain the observed relations...

Today, with the development   of paradigms such as the compact city, smart growth and new urbanism, mixed land use-as one of principles of this paradigm- has been expanded  in  urban planning of  developing countries and  various researchers tried to develop literature and assessment methods of land use based on the concept of mixture of  land use. The conc...

2016
Heather Moody Joe T. Darden

Childhood lead poisoning in the United States remains a persistent, prevalent environmental public health problem, especially for children living in central-city neighborhoods. These neighborhoods typically are racially segregated, are in proximity to current and/or legacy lead emission sources, consist of older housing, and contain disproportionately African American or black children of low-i...

Sense of security is one of the basic human needs and the most influential social components of urban life. Perhaps it can be the most important factor in promoting or hindering walking in cities. In other words, if the neighborhoods of a city have a good level of security, the presents of pedestrians can be seen in local streets even in the late night hours. In this regard and to the answer to...

Journal: :Annals of The Tohoku Geographycal Asocciation 1983

2017
Mika R. Moran Pnina Plaut Dafna Merom

Children's outdoors play (OP) is an important source of physical activity that has been decreasing in recent years due to changes in neighborhood design, parent safety concerns and child sedentary leisure. However, few studies examined such determinants from children's perspectives. This study explores environmental and socio-cultural aspects of children's OP using a qualitative and quantitativ...

Journal: :The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2011
Omar Olmedo Inge F Goldstein Luis Acosta Adnan Divjan Andrew G Rundle Ginger L Chew Robert B Mellins Lori Hoepner Howard Andrews Sara Lopez-Pintado James W Quinn Frederica P Perera Rachel L Miller Judith S Jacobson Matthew S Perzanowski

BACKGROUND Asthma prevalence varies widely among neighborhoods within New York City. Exposure to mouse and cockroach allergens has been suggested as a cause. OBJECTIVE To test the hypotheses that children living in high asthma prevalence neighborhoods (HAPNs) would have higher concentrations of cockroach and mouse allergens in their homes than children in low asthma prevalence neighborhoods (...

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