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Influences of Built Environments on Walking and Cycling: Lessons from Bogotá
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In this article, the authors examined how road facility designs, like street density, connectivity, and proximity to Ciclovia lanes, are associated with physical activity, while other attributes of the built environment, like density and land-use mixtures, are not.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Sustainable Transportation.The article was published on 2009-06-11. It has received 652 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Built environment & Poison control.read more
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National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants
Mariel M. Finucane,Gretchen A Stevens,Melanie J. Cowan,Goodarz Danaei,John K Lin,Christopher J. Paciorek,Gitanjali M Singh,Hialy R. Gutierrez,Yuan Lu,Adil N. Bahalim,Farshad Farzadfar,Leanne M Riley,Majid Ezzati +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimated trends and their uncertainties of mean BMI for adults 20 years and older in 199 countries and territories, and used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate mean BMI by age, country, and year.
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Infrastructure, programs, and policies to increase bicycling: An international review
TL;DR: Most of the evidence examined in this review supports the crucial role of public policy in encouraging bicycling, including infrastructure provision and pro-bicycle programs, supportive land use planning, and restrictions on car use.
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Shaping cities for health: complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century
Yvonne Rydin,Ana Bleahu,Michael Davies,Julio D. Dávila,Sharon Friel,Sharon Friel,Giovanni De Grandis,Nora Groce,Pedro C. Hallal,Ian Hamilton,Philippa Howden-Chapman,Ka Man Lai,CJ Lim,Juliana Martins,David Osrin,Ian Ridley,Ian Scott,Myfanwy Taylor,Paul Wilkinson,James F. Wilson +19 more
TL;DR: The UCL Lancet Commission met from November, 2009, to June, 2011, bringing together an interdisciplinary team of experts to under stand how better health outcomes can be delivered through interventions in the urban environment in cities across the world, and to generate policy recommendations.
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Bicycling renaissance in North America? An update and re-appraisal of cycling trends and policies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed trends in cycling levels, safety, and policies in Canada and the USA over the past two decades, analyzing aggregate data for the two countries as well as city-specific case study data for nine large cities (Chicago, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington).
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The impact of transportation infrastructure on bicycling injuries and crashes: a review of the literature.
TL;DR: Evidence is beginning to accumulate that purpose-built bicycle-specific facilities reduce crashes and injuries among cyclists, providing the basis for initial transportation engineering guidelines for cyclist safety.
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
TL;DR: Putnam as mentioned in this paper showed that changes in work, family structure, age, suburban life, television, computers, women's roles and other factors are isolating Americans from each other in a trend whose reflection can clearly be seen in British society.
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International physical activity questionnaire: 12-country reliability and validity
Cora L Craig,Alison L. Marshall,Michael Sjöström,Adrian Bauman,Michael L. Booth,Barbara E. Ainsworth,Michael Pratt,Ulf Ekelund,Agneta Yngve,James F. Sallis,Pekka Oja +10 more
TL;DR: Considering the diverse samples in this study, IPAQ has reasonable measurement properties for monitoring population levels of physical activity among 18- to 65-yr-old adults in diverse settings.
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Travel and the Built Environment
Reid Ewing,Robert Cervero +1 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of the built environment-travel literature existing at the end of 2009 is conducted in order to draw generalizable conclusions for practice, and finds that vehicle miles traveled is most strongly related to measures of accessibility to destinations and secondarily to street network design variables.
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Travel demand and the 3ds: density, diversity, and design
Robert Cervero,Kara M. Kockelman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how the built environment affects trip rates and mode choice of residents in the San Francisco Bay Area using 1990 travel diary data and land-use records obtained from the U.S. census, regional inventories, and field surveys.
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An ecological approach to creating active living communities.
James F. Sallis,Robert Cervero,William Ascher,Karla A. Henderson,M. Katherine Kraft,Jacqueline Kerr +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that multilevel interventions based on ecological models and targeting individuals, social environments, physical environments, and policies must be implemented to achieve population change in physical activity.