The growing worldwide awareness of the significant impacts of physical activities on
physical and physiological health has aroused great interest in the role of the physical built …

Feeling safe in public transport is essential for mobility, and fear of crime can be a larger
problem for the individual than crime itself. The aim of the present paper is to systematically …

This paper explores the link between the quality of the built environment and its value, in
health, social, economic and environmental terms. This is theorized as 'place value'which …

Background An inequitable distribution of parks and other 'green spaces' could exacerbate
health inequalities if people on lower incomes, who are already at greater risk of …

The time that children and adults spend sedentary–put simply, doing too much sitting as
distinct from doing too little physical activity—has recently been proposed as a population …

We investigated the influence of neighborhood built form on sense of community in Perth,
Western Australia. It was hypothesized that sense of community would be stronger in …

Declines in children's independent mobility are commonly attributed to parents' fear of
strangers, yet few empirical studies have investigated this relationship. We examined:(1) the …

Perceived safety from crime and objectively-measured crime rates may be associated with
physical inactivity. The purpose of this meta-analysis is to estimate the odds of accumulating …

The objective of this paper is to assess the relationship between residential crime and the
built environment that reflects the principles of crime prevention through environmental …

In the context of the substantial volume of research focused in recent years on the walkability
of the built environment, this report presents some initial thoughts on what the sub-discipline …