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Rania Ajmi, Faiza Khebour Allouche, Aude Nuscia Taîbi and Safa Bel Fekih Boussema
As a primary goal, urban green spaces (UGSs) have been linked to several aspects of inhabitants? wellbeing. Quality could be a way to intervene in the UGS?human health interaction. For that purpose, we developed an urban green space quality index (UGS QI...
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Anna Cortesi, Ioannis Vardopoulos and Luca Salvati
Improving communities and the urban built environment to promote good health, wellness, and wellbeing has become a top priority globally. This growing trend, evident also in the Sustainable Development Goals? urgent call for action, has a significant inf...
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Georgia Pollard, Philip Roetman, James Ward, Belinda Chiera and Evangeline Mantzioris
We are living in an age of concern for mental health and wellbeing. The objective of the research presented in this paper is to investigate the perceived health, social value and happiness benefits of urban agriculture (UA) by focusing on home and commun...
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Georgia Pollard, Philip Roetman, James Ward, Belinda Chiera and Evangeline Mantzioris
We are living in an age of concern for mental health and wellbeing. The objective of the research presented in this paper is to investigate the perceived health, social value and happiness benefits of urban agriculture (UA) by focusing on home and commun...
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Hee Sun Choi, Gerhard Bruyns, Wang Zhang, Tian Cheng and Saijal Sharma
Numerous studies have shown that the emotional wellbeing of urban populations is influenced by various aspects of urban development, such as social factors and the presence of walkable areas and green spaces. However, there is a lack of research that clo...
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Claire Henderson-Wilson, Kah-Ling Sia, Jenny Veitch, Petra K Staiger, Penny Davidson and Peter Nicholls
Whilst a growing body of evidence demonstrates people derive a range of health and wellbeing benefits from visiting parks, only a limited number of attempts have been made to provide a complementary economic assessment of parks. The aim of this explorato...
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Matthew Ellis and Puspa Raj Pant
This special issue of IJERPH has published a range of studies in this developing field of Global Community Child Health research. A number of manuscripts submitted in response to our invitation describing ?community-based interventions which impact on ch...
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Bernd Resch and Michael Szell
Due to the wide-spread use of disruptive digital technologies like mobile phones, cities have transitioned from data-scarce to data-rich environments. As a result, the field of geoinformatics is being reshaped and challenged to develop adequate data-driv...
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Muhamad Ratodi
Pág. 35 - 41
Urban planning potentially has a close relationship with the the study of urban health. But the relationship between these two major relatively new concern for urban planners and urban health experts. During the 19th century, the relationship between the...
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Yao Du, Guibo Sun, Mei-po Kwan
Pág. 729 - 753
Transit-oriented cities often use urban rail transit (e.g., metro) to lead public transport development (TOD), which might overlook other public transport options (e.g., bus) that matter for the health and wellbeing of older people. We investigate older ...
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Eric Harris, Anna Franz and Sabine O?Hara
Urban design and architecture have inadvertently contributed to the bifurcation of societies divided into haves and have-nots, thus undermining social equity, restricting opportunity, and resulting in poverty next to overabundance and waste. Global popul...
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Azadeh Jamali, Maryam Robati, Hanieh Nikoomaram, Forough Farsad and Hossein Aghamohammadi
Urban resilience studies have increased during recent years due to the significance of climate change as an alarming issue in centralized and highly populated cities where urban functionalities are disintegrated. Towards this aim, an Exploratory Factor A...
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Montserrat Delpino-Chamy and Yolanda Pérez Albert
(1) Background: To assess the quality of the built environment, it is necessary to study both the physical components and the inhabitants? perceptions. However, since objective indicators are easily measurable, most studies have centered only on analyzin...
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Mastura Adam, Ammar Al-Sharaa, Norafida Ab Ghafar, Riyadh Mundher, Shamsul Abu Bakar and Ameer Alhasan
Visual comfort has a critical effect that significantly influences public appreciation of urban environments. Although colour is an integral part of billboard design, little empirical evidence exists to support some of the popularly held ideas about the ...
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Haohao Ji, Linbo Qing, Longmei Han, Zhengyong Wang, Yongqiang Cheng and Yonghong Peng
The urban environment has a great impact on the wellbeing of citizens and it is of great significance to understand how citizens perceive and evaluate places in a large scale urban region and to provide scientific evidence to support human-centered urban...
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Jonathan Cinnamon and Lindi Jahiu
The release of Google Street View in 2007 inspired several new panoramic street-level imagery platforms including Apple Look Around, Bing StreetSide, Baidu Total View, Tencent Street View, Naver Street View, and Yandex Panorama. The ever-increasing globa...
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Thanh Phuong Ho, Mark Stevenson, Jason Thompson and Tuan Quoc Nguyen
Urban design has been shown to play a vital role in promoting the health and wellbeing of urban citizens. However, studies of microscale urban design are underrepresented in comparison with macroscale urban design, especially from low- and middle-income ...
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Samain Sabrin, Maryam Karimi and Rouzbeh Nazari
Extreme heat events at urban centers in combination with air pollution pose a serious risk to human health. Among these are financially distressed cities and neighborhoods that are facing enormous challenges without the scientific and technical capacity ...
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Minna Aittasalo, Johanna Tiilikainen, Kari Tokola, Timo Seimelä, Satu-Maaria Sarjala, Pasi Metsäpuro, Ari Hynynen, Jaana Suni, Harri Sievänen, Henri Vähä-Ypyä, Kalle Vaismaa, Olli Vakkala, Charlie Foster, Sylvia Titze and Tommi Vasankari
Active commuting to work (ACW) is beneficial to traffic, environment and population health. More evidence is needed on effective ways to promote ACW. This paper describes the protocol and baseline findings of a cluster-randomized controlled study, which ...
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Athanasios E. Zlatoudis
Pág. 418 - 424
The need for urban connectivity in the cities of northern Europe has put forward the use of any means of transport. Cities like Hamburg, Stockholm and Venice that traditionally were industrial and commercial centers have developed a significant network o...
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