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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground We assessed whether the residential built environment was associated with physical activity (PA) differently on weekdays and weekends, and contributed to socio-economic differences in PA. Methods...
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From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective Although perceived neighbourhood environment is considered a predictor of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA), evidence for this is limited in South Asia. Thus, the aim was to determine the association...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 120, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe built environment may influence exposures to physical inactivity and exposure to air pollution in different ways and thus may differentially influence the health of people living in urban areas. Hankey et al. (p....
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From:Journal of Behavioral Medicine (Vol. 43, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedPerceptions of the physical and social environment have been shown to be predictive of physical activity (PA) behavior. However, the mechanisms of this association have not been examined. Affective response to PA was...
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From:Environments (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The importance of the built environment as a critical influence on public health is receiving increasing attention from researchers, planners and health professionals. While it seems impossible to identify...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedInsufficient physical activity (PA) is the fourth major risk factor for many non-communicable diseases and premature mortality worldwide. Features of the built environment (BE) play a considerable role in determining...
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From:Yale Law Journal (Vol. 124, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe built environment is characterized by man-made physical features that make it difficult for certain individuals--often poor people and people of color--to access certain places. Bridges were designed to be so low...
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From:Environments (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The environment surrounding us sends strong messages about how to behave and what to perceive. Planners and decision-makers play a key role in constructing these messages, and therefore help determine how...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 19, Issue 47)Whether or not John Sorrell gets the job, what would you put top of the agenda for the new chairman of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, in order to put design more firmly into the mix? 'Good...
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From:Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management (Vol. 12, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe present paper aims to raise awareness of climate change impacts on the urban areas. The article presents the current state of research at international and Romanian level, proposing several solutions that should be...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedEarly mobilization and rehabilitation, multidisciplinary stroke expertise and comprehensive therapies are fundamental in a stroke unit. To achieve effective and safe stroke care, the physical environment in modern...
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From:Environment and SocietyPeer-ReviewedInfrastructures have proven to be useful focal points for understanding social phenomena. The projects of concern in this literature are often considered complete or, if not, their materialization is assumed to be...
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From:Design WeekJohnson Banks has been appointed to review the Commission for Architecture and Built Environment's identity, as the organisation moves to clarify its positioning and deliver a greater consistency of brand. It is the...
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From:Environments (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTo begin, consider the conception of planning as the link between knowledge and action (Friedmann 1987). Or as the process and practice that mediates between past, present and future (Dempster 1998). These notions...
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From:Science and Children (Vol. 47, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedMy students live in apartments in brownstones, prewar buildings, and high-rise buildings. They experience water towers, subway stations, masonry buildings, and glass and steel constructions regularly. For a science...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThis study explored the association between built environment and semen parameters among men who sought fertility evaluation. We used a data of 5,886 men living in the Seoul capital area whose semen was tested at a...
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From:Journal of Research in Architecture and Planning (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Ghafer Shahzad ABSTRACT Built environment of Muslim shrines in the province of Punjab, Pakistan is incessantly changing. This phenomenon is gone faster from the year 1980 onward with the re- construction...
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From:Social Policy Journal of New Zealand (Issue 35) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Previous qualitative research with Pacific families has highlighted the lack of "fit" between the state housing stock and its occupants. The housing conditions of Tokelauan people living in New Zealand have...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground This study aimed to determine the validity of the Malay-translated version scales for assessing the social support and physical environment for exercise activities. Method The study was a...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Accumulating evidence suggests that the built environment is associated with physical activity. The extent to which the built environment may support adherence to physical activity interventions is...