Increasing walking

Giles-Corti, Billie; Broomhall, Melissa H.; Knuiman, Matthew; Collins, Catherine; Douglas, Kate; Ng, Kevin; Lange, Andrea; Donovan, Robert J.

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2004.10.018

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“…If parents perceived that parenting social norms were unsupportive of independent mobility, the odds of their child's independent mobility to the local park (OR = 0.64; 95% CI = 0.42-0.97) and shop (OR = 0.56; 95% CI = 0.34-0.91) significantly decreased. None of the perceived neighborhood problems Overall independent mobility a 53 (29) a Independently mobility to and from 3 or all 4 of the destinations.…”

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“…29 Park attributes were determined by remote sensing methods (Google Earth) using the Public Open Space Desktop Auditing Tool (POSDAT), which has been shown to be a valid and reliable tool for assessing park quality. 30 We hypothesized that larger parks have more attributes and thus children are more likely to independently travel to these destinations compared with smaller parks.…”

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The Effect of the Social and Physical Environment on Children’s Independent Mobility to Neighborhood Destinations

Christian¹,

Klinker²,

Villanueva³

et al. 2015

Journal of Physical Activity and Health

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Background:Relationships between context-specific measures of the physical and social environment and children’s independent mobility to neighborhood destination types were examined.Methods:Parents in RESIDE’s fourth survey reported whether their child (8–15 years; n = 181) was allowed to travel without an adult to school, friend’s house, park and local shop. Objective physical environment measures were matched to each of these destinations. Social environment measures included neighborhood perceptions and items specific to local independent mobility.Results:Independent mobility to local destinations ranged from 30% to 48%. Independent mobility to a local park was less likely as the distance to the closest park (small and large size) increased and less likely with additional school grounds (P < .05). Independent mobility to school was less likely as the distance to the closest large park increased and if the neighborhood was perceived as unsafe (P < .05). Independent mobility to a park or shops decreased if parenting social norms were unsupportive of children’s local independent movement (P < .05).Conclusions:Independent mobility appears dependent upon the specific destination being visited and the impact of neighborhood features varies according to the destination examined. Findings highlight the importance of access to different types and sizes of urban green space for children’s independent mobility to parks.

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The Effect of the Social and Physical Environment on Children’s Independent Mobility to Neighborhood Destinations

Christian¹,

Klinker²,

Villanueva³

et al. 2015

Journal of Physical Activity and Health

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“…In literature, comfort and pleasure is measured for different transportation modes (e.g., [100] for car users, [101][102][103][104] for walking) and target groups (e.g., [105] for commuters), but all are based on reported satisfaction in a survey.…”

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“…Giles-Corti et al [104] also evaluates walking attractiveness, but finds other measures, like shade along paths (%), lawns irrigated (%), presence of walking paths (%),presence of sporting facilities, adjacent to ocean or river (%),presence of water features (%), quietness of the surrounding roads, presence of lighting (%) and presence of birdlife (%).…”

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How to Monitor Sustainable Mobility in Cities? Literature Review in the Frame of Creating a Set of Sustainable Mobility Indicators

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Abstract:The role of sustainable mobility and its impact on society and the environment is evident and recognized worldwide. Nevertheless, although there is a growing number of measures and projects that deal with sustainable mobility issues, it is not so easy to compare their results and, so far, there is no globally applicable set of tools and indicators that ensure holistic evaluation and facilitate replicability of the best practices. In this paper, based on the extensive literature review, we give a systematic overview of relevant and scientifically sound indicators that cover different aspects of sustainable mobility that are applicable in different social and economic contexts around the world. Overall, 22 sustainable mobility indicators have been selected and an overview of the applied measures described across the literature review has been presented.

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“…Public and private green spaces also help promote healthy biodiversity throughout the city (Gagné and Fahrig 2010, Aronson et al 2014, Villaseñor et al 2017, which helps to provide interaction with nature in people's daily lives. Thus, an accessible network of public and private green spaces throughout a city is important for regular access to nature (Giles-Corti et al 2005, Cohen et al 2010, Schipperijn et al 2010. Social factors such as age, gender, and education also influence how people access nature (Ho et al 2005, Pleson et al 2014, and socioeconomically disadvantaged areas often have lower quality and quantity of public green spaces (Wen et al 2013, Astell-Burt et al 2014, Kellert et al 2017, vegetative cover (Iverson and Cook 2000, Tooke et al 2010, Pham et al 2012, and species richness (Kinzig et al 2005, Strohbach et al 2009, van Heezik et al 2013.…”

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Maintaining experiences of nature as a city grows

Sushinsky¹,

Rhodes²,

Shanahan³

et al. 2017

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ABSTRACT. Experiences of nature contribute to human health and well-being, yet as the world's population continues to concentrate in towns and cities there is mounting concern that these experiences are diminishing. Despite this, little is known about how we can maintain experiences of nature as cities grow. Here, we quantify how people's opportunities to experience nature might change with future urban growth in the city of Brisbane, Australia. We simulated the addition of 84,642 houses under compact and sprawling growth scenarios and modeled changes in people's opportunities to experience nature by estimating changes in backyard size, public green space provision, and bird species richness close to households. We discovered that the form of urban growth could strongly influence people's opportunities to experience nature in a way that is highly nonrandom across the socioeconomic gradient. Under a sprawling pattern of development, with low residential densities and few interstitial green spaces, our models suggest severe declines in access to public green space and bird species richness around people's homes. These declines are predicted to be concentrated in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas of the city. Compact development leads to greater reductions in backyard size, but smaller declines in access to public green space and bird species richness. Our results point to a difficult trade-off; residential infill will maintain larger green spaces and higher overall bird diversity but reduce backyard sizes, impacting people's opportunities to experience nature in a different way. Careful planning is needed to balance the availability of public and private urban green spaces to ensure that the opportunities for people to experience nature are maintained as urbanization continues.

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Increasing walking

Cited by 1,217 publications

References 19 publications

The Effect of the Social and Physical Environment on Children’s Independent Mobility to Neighborhood Destinations

The Effect of the Social and Physical Environment on Children’s Independent Mobility to Neighborhood Destinations

How to Monitor Sustainable Mobility in Cities? Literature Review in the Frame of Creating a Set of Sustainable Mobility Indicators

Maintaining experiences of nature as a city grows

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