Category Archives: Urban Design

DOHMH releases Data Brief on Neighborhood Walkability and Physical Activity

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Built Environment and Health

The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene just released a Data Brief describing our collaborative research using data from the Physical Activity and Transit (PAT) Survey to study neighborhood walkability and physical activity in NYC.  This survey used GPS … Continue reading →

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Our Entry for the Knight News Challenge: How can we harness data and information for the health of communities?

Posted on September 17, 2013 by Built Environment and Health

We entered a project into the Knight News Foundation Challenge: How can we harness data and information for the health of communities?  Our proposal is to further develop our CANVAS: Street View project and make it available to researchers, agencies … Continue reading →

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New Book on Urban Design

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Built Environment and Health

A new book by Reid Ewing and Otto Clemente, Measuring Urban Design: Metrics for Livable Places (Island Press, 2013) includes a chapter by BEH researchers. The chapter, by Kathryn Neckerman, Marnie Purciel, James Quinn, and Andrew Rundle, reports on a … Continue reading →

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