Category Archives: Neighborhood Environments

Neighborhood Physical Disorder Maps

The Journal of Maps recently published an article co-authored by Andrew Rundle, Gina Lovasi and Stephen Mooney and others, showing a high resolution map of neighborhood physical disorder in New York City. Physical disorder – the deterioration of urban spaces … Continue reading

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Neighborhood Social Environment and Obesity

Numerous studies have examined the relation between features of the neighborhood built environment and obesity related behaviors or obesity itself, to the extent that Healthy People 2020 includes goals for neighborhood built environment interventions to support physical activity. The neighborhood … Continue reading

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Exploring How Residents of NYC Use Neighborhood Spaces

The Built Environment and Health team (including Cluster members Lovasi and Rundle) just published a paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showing that differences in urban design in New York City (NYC) are associated with how residents utilize their residential neighborhood … Continue reading

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Throwback Thursday: Neighborhood Income and DNA Damage from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Prostate Tissue.

Throwback Thursday posts will revisit previously published articles and provide results of additional analyses that didn’t fit within the Journal’s word limits or re-imagine how the underlying data in the paper can be presented graphically. “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Modifies the … Continue reading

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Measuring the Ecosystem of Business and Retail Establishments

Gina Lovasi and colleagues just published a manuscript detailing work to clean and code data on all NYC metropolitan area businesses over the period 1990-2010.  Their goal was to use twenty years of business establishment data to characterize changes in neighborhoods … Continue reading

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