Over the past decade, studies examining the interplay between neighborhood design and
residents' perceptions and behaviors have proliferated. For instance, there has been a …

Realtors match home-seekers with neighborhoods that have built and social characteristics
they desire to pursue active lifestyles. Studies have yet to explore realtors' perspectives on …

Few studies have been published on the reactions of residents to modifications of their
residential landscape. We explored residents' experiences of home zone remodelling and …

The neighborhood is a social and geographic concept that plays an increasingly important
role in research, policymaking decisions, and practice that address disparities in the well …

This is a study that tests the New Urbanist claims that neighborhood design impacts sense of
community and residential habits. Through the framework provided by New Urbanist …

Neighborhood effects relate to the impact that the residential context may have on individual
outcomes above and beyond an individual's own characteristics. There is a vast literature …

Introduction: Built environment interventions designed to reduce non-communicable
diseases and health inequity, complement urban planning agendas focused on creating …

The purpose of this dissertation is to aid the understanding of how people use their
neighborhoods. Previous studies and theories have given diverse interpretations of the …

What research supports the view that compact, walkable, diverse (CWD) neighborhoods are
beneficial for urban residents? To make this assessment, we searched the literature to try to …

A scan through the indexes of most well-known urban design texts would suggest that the
discipline has little to say on the topics of 'health'and/or 'well-being'. Yet the environments in …