Category Archives: Walkability

Where Do Older Pedestrians Experience a Risk of Being Killed in a Motor Vehicle Crash?

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Built Environment and Health

Our newest paper just came out in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society and shows that across the US, pedestrian fatalities from motor vehicle crashes among older adults cluster around senior centers, community centers, libraries, pharmacies/drug stores, and healthcare/hospital/health services. … Continue reading →

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The Links Between Vibrant Retail Business Environments and Resident’s Health

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Built Environment and Health

We have completed a series of studies showing that neighborhood access to small and medium size retail businesses that provide for community member’s living needs – the goods and services we need to function, live and thrive, such as banks, … Continue reading →

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Pedestrian Injury Research

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Built Environment and Health

Our work on pedestrian safety is an extension of our work on how urban design can be used to support engagement in pedestrian activity and physical activity. As we have built our portfolio of pedestrian injury research, we have come … Continue reading →

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Neighborhood Walkability and Lower Risk of Incident Diabetes

Posted on December 6, 2024 by Built Environment and Health

Continuing our collaboration with the NYU Women’s Health Study team (see here) to understand how neighborhood walkability affects chronic disease risk, we recently published a paper showing that higher walkability is associated with lower diabetes risk.  Among 11,037 women free … Continue reading →

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Falls prevention focuses on indoor falls, but outdoor falls are just as severe.

Posted on August 13, 2024 by Built Environment and Health

Continuing our work on pedestrian falls we just published a paper in Injury Epidemiology focused on describing the clinical severity of injurious falls, distinguishing between falls that occur indoors and those that occur outdoors.  While falls prevention guidelines focus on … Continue reading →

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The Burden of Pedestrian Falls on Streets and Sidewalks in the U.S.

Posted on January 30, 2024 by Built Environment and Health

After doing substantial work documenting the links between greater neighborhood walkability and higher engagement in pedestrian activity and reduced weight gain, in recent years we have launched research projects on pedestrian safety.  In new work just published in the Journal … Continue reading →

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Higher Neighborhood Walkability is Associated with Lower Risk of Obesity Related Cancers

Posted on December 23, 2023 by Built Environment and Health

In collaboration with colleagues at the NYU Women’s Health Study we recently published analyses showing that higher neighborhood walkability is associated with lower risk of obesity related cancers.  Fourteen thousand women were recruited into the study between 1985 and 1991 … Continue reading →

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Cumulative experience of neighborhood walkability over a decade and body mass index and waist circumference.

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Built Environment and Health

We just published new work in the American Journal of Epidemiology on the beneficial, cumulative effect of living in neighborhoods with higher walkability on body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference.  In collaboration with the REGARDS team and Drexel’s Urban … Continue reading →

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Higher Neighborhood Walkability is Associated with a Lower Risk of Gestational Diabetes

Posted on January 26, 2023 by Built Environment and Health

Continuing our partnership with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to study how urban built environments influence health during pregnancy we recently published research showing that higher neighborhood walkability is associated with lower risk of gestational diabetes.  Gestational … Continue reading →

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Higher Neighborhood Walkability is Associated with a Lower Risk of Excessive Weight Gain During Pregnancy

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Built Environment and Health

In partnership with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene we have been studying how neighborhood environments influence health during pregnancy and birth outcomes, with recent work focusing on weight gain during pregnancy.   In 2009, the Institute of Medicine … Continue reading →

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