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Category Archives: Physical Disorder
How and where patterns of activity among older adults change over time
At BEH, we’re interested in how your residential neighborhood affects how physically active you are. But we’ve come to understand that being active as not just one thing and not merely a matter of expending calories. That is, walking is … Continue reading
Posted in Adults, Methods, Physical Activity, Physical Disorder
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Man on the Street or Google Street View to Measure Neighborhood Physical Disorder
We’ve done a lot with Street View at the BEH, and we think the CANVAS application we developed to help teams do reliable and efficient virtual audits works pretty well. But we never really knew what we might be missing … Continue reading
Posted in CANVAS, Mehtods, Physical Disorder, Street View
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Neighborhood Physical Disorder and Physical Activity Among Older Adults in NYC
Through the years, we have done a fair amount of work to collect and validate measures of neighborhood physical disorder – urban deterioration – using our CANVAS/Google Street View system. Neighborhood disorder is controversial construct and measure, not only because … Continue reading
Can Big Data get us Better Estimates of Neighborhood Disorder?
At the Built Environment and Health group, we try hard to measure neighborhood characteristics accurately. We systematically audit Street View imagery, we use LiDAR scans to assess tree canopy, and we use business registration records to profile neighborhood retail. A … Continue reading
Posted in Methods, Physical Disorder, Street View
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Neighborhood Safety and Physical Activity
Would you go for a walk around the block or in a local park if you thought your neighborhood unsafe and you would be in danger? At BEH, we care a lot about understanding constraints on outdoor physical activity, including … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Physical Disorder, Safety
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New Research Using Google Street View to Conduct Neighborhood ‘Virtual Audits’
We recently published three papers describing our use of Google Street View to conduct ‘virtual-audits’ to collect observational data on neighborhood characteristic and conditions. A long established approach to collecting data on neighborhood conditions is to send trained observers to … Continue reading
Posted in CANVAS, Methods, Physical Disorder, Street View, Urban Design, Walkability
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Built Environment and Health Research Group 