two neighborhoods developed within the last 50 years were classified as W-L high wire code (6). Based on these Columbus data, if cases from the inner city are matched with controls from newer neighborhoods, odds ratios exceeding a value of 3.0 could be produced, falsely associating high wire code with childhood cancer. Evidence exists that the cases in the 1988 Denver study may be from older ne...

This paper addresses the problem of low impact of smart city applications observed in the fields of energy and transport, which constitute high-priority domains for the development of smart cities. However, these are not the only fields where the impact of smart cities has been limited. The paper provides an explanation for the low impact of various individual applications of smart cities and d...

This paper uses unique data on Philadelphia’s nonprofit organizations compiled from IRS listings, city cultural fund grant applications, telephone directories and newspaper listings in 1997 and 2003 to test Wilson’s (1987) hypothesis that inner-city neighborhoods suffer from a dearth of social institutions. The author integrates these data with demographic information from the 2000 census to ex...

The present study assesses the population prevalence of DSM-IV disorders among native and immigrant children living in low socio-economic status (SES) inner-city neighborhoods in the Netherlands. In the first phase of a two-phase epidemiological design, teachers screened an ethnically diverse sample of 2041 children aged 6-10 years using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). In th...

Newcastle has become hip. No one is exactly sure when, or even how it happened, but somewhere after the closure of BHP the city has lived up to what has become a much-used phrase it has moved from steel city to style city. ... Much of the change has taken place around the foreshore, where the Honeysuckle urban renewal project has Novocastrians and visitors working, living and playing ... The la...

Human exposure to excessively warm weather, especially in cities, is an increasingly important public health problem. This study examined heat-related health inequalities within one city in order to understand the relationships between the microclimates of urban neighborhoods, population characteristics, thermal environments that regulate microclimates, and the resources people possess to cope ...

physical decline and the necessity of redevelopment are never-ending challenges for built communities. neighborhoods undergo cycles of birth, growth, stabilization, decline and rejuvenation. redevelopment is a mechanism that can reduce the time an area is in decline and spur the process of revitalization. furthermore, redevelopment can provide incentives for a developer to build in a community ...