ArticleAmerican journal of public health2013
A new urban planning code's impact on walking: the residential environments project.
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- Associations Between the Built Environment and Adult Obesity and the Mediating Role of Physical Activity: A Systematic Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review on the associations between the built environment and adult's physical activity in global tropical and subtropical climate regions.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Pooled it
- Exploring Perceived and Objective Measures of the Neighborhood Environment and Associations with Physical Activity among Adults: A Review and a Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Using natural experiments to improve public health evidence: a review of context and utility for obesity prevention.Health research policy and systems · 2020Pooled it
- Methods for accounting for neighbourhood self-selection in physical activity and dietary behaviour research: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Pooled it
- The Weight of Place: Built Environment Correlates of Obesity and Diabetes.Endocrine reviews · 2022Review
- Cross-sectional and prospective associations between active living environments and accelerometer-assessed physical activity in the EPIC-Norfolk cohort.Health & place · 2021Article
- Living liveable? RESIDE's evaluation of the "Liveable Neighborhoods" planning policy on the health supportive behaviors and wellbeing of residents in Perth, Western Australia.SSM - population health · 2020Article
- Correlates of Walking for Travel in Seven European Cities: The PASTA Project.Environmental health perspectives · 2019Article
- The effect of moving to East Village, the former London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Athletes' Village, on physical activity and adiposity (ENABLE London): a cohort study.The Lancet. Public health · 2019Article
- Extending the paradigm: a policy framework for healthy and equitable eating (HE2).Public health nutrition · 2018Article
- Local Food Environments, Suburban Development, and BMI: A Mixed Methods Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Comparison of Factors Associated with Fear of Falling between Older Adults with and without a Fall History.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Restructuring the built environment to change adult health behaviors: a scoping review integrated with behavior change frameworks.Cities & health · 2018Article
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- Changes in walking, body mass index, and cardiometabolic risk factors following residential relocation: Longitudinal results from the CARDIA study.Journal of transport & health · 2016Article
- The effect of changing the built environment on physical activity: a quantitative review of the risk of bias in natural experiments.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2016Review
- Walkability and cardiometabolic risk factors: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.Health & place · 2016Article
- Safe RESIDential Environments? A longitudinal analysis of the influence of crime-related safety on walking.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2016Article
- Neighbourhood environment and physical activity in older adults.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectivesWe examined whether people moving into a housing development designed according to a state government livable neighborhoods subdivision code engage in more walking than do people who move to other types of developments.
methodsIn a natural experiment of 1813 people building homes in 73 new housing developments in Perth, Western Australia, we surveyed participants before and then 12 and 36 months after moving. We measured self-reported walking using the Neighborhood Physical Activity Questionnaire and collected perceptions of the environment and self-selection factors. We calculated objective measures of the built environment using a Geographic Information System.
resultsAfter relocation, participants in livable versus conventional developments had greater street connectivity, residential density, land use mix, and access to destinations and more positive perceptions of their neighborhood (all P < .05). However, there were no significant differences in walking over time by type of development (P > .05).
conclusionsImplementation of the Livable Neighborhoods Guidelines produced more supportive environments; however, the level of intervention was insufficient to encourage more walking. Evaluations of new urban planning policies need to incorporate longer term follow-up to allow time for new neighborhoods to develop.
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