ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
The Role of Urban Morphology Design on Enhancing Physical Activity and Public Health.
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- Associations between walkability and physical activity among children and adolescents: evidence from a gamified intervention.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Recreation- and sport-led regeneration of urban water infrastructure.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Mapping urban form into local climate zones for the continental US from 1986-2020.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Middle-Aged and Young People's Perspectives on Healthy Aging Through Exercise: Environmental, Psychosocial, and Individual Factors With the Photovoice Method.Journal of aging research · 2024Article
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- Virtual reality assessment of walking in a modifiable urban environment: a feasibility and acceptability study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Exploring Restrictions to use of community greenways for physical activity through structural equation modeling.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Examining the Dose-Response Relationship between Outdoor Jogging and Physical Health of Youths: A Long-Term Experimental Study in Campus Green Space.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Developing a Health-Spatial Indicator System for a Healthy City in Small and Midsized Cities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Editorial for the Special Issue on "Experiencing the City: The Relation between Urban Design and People's Well-Being".International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 6 countries.
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Abstract
Along with environmental pollution, urban planning has been connected to public health. The research indicates that the quality of built environments plays an important role in reducing mental disorders and overall health. The structure and shape of the city are considered as one of the factors influencing happiness and health in urban communities and the type of the daily activities of citizens. The aim of this study was to promote physical activity in the main structure of the city via urban design in a way that the main form and morphology of the city can encourage citizens to move around and have physical activity within the city. Functional, physical, cultural-social, and perceptual-visual features are regarded as the most important and effective criteria in increasing physical activities in urban spaces, based on literature review. The environmental quality of urban spaces and their role in the physical activities of citizens in urban spaces were assessed by using the questionnaire tool and analytical network process (ANP) of structural equation modeling. Further, the space syntax method was utilized to evaluate the role of the spatial integration of urban spaces on improving physical activities. Based on the results, consideration of functional diversity, spatial flexibility and integration, security, and the aesthetic and visual quality of urban spaces plays an important role in improving the physical health of citizens in urban spaces. Further, more physical activities, including motivation for walking and the sense of public health and happiness, were observed in the streets having higher linkage and space syntax indexes with their surrounding texture.
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