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Walkability Safety and Walkability Participation: A Health Concern

Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Walking is correlated with both improved physical and emotional health. However, walking behavior is often heavily influenced by environmental conditions. The goal of this study was to examine actual and perceived walkability safety and the relationship between perceived walkability safety and self-rated levels of walkability participation, defined as
Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar   +5 more
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Whose Walkability?

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2019
The Walk Score is a patented algorithm for measuring the walkability of a given geographic area. In addition to its use in real estate, the accompanying API is used in a range of research in public health and urban development. This study explores how neighborhood residents differently understand the notion of walkability as well as the extent to which
Mark Diaz, Nicholas Diakopoulos
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Walkability

2022
Anirban Adhya, Philip D. Plowright
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Walkable Neighborhood Systems

Growth and Change, 2016
AbstractThis essay defines walkable neighborhood systems, summarizes the negative impacts of suburbia on the economy as a whole, and presents indirect pricing as a major cause of suburbia. The paper proposes several pricing reforms and green mobility as solutions based on prices that reflect full costs.
Sherman L. Lewis, Kris Adhikari
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Walkability

In urban studies, walkability generally refers to the capacity to walk as enabled or constrained by the built, social, and natural environment, but definitions have varied over time, between disciplines and authors. While cities have been built for walking for thousands of years, “walkability” only emerged as a common term around the 1990s.
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