Category Archives: Urban Design

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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