{"title":"Shortening the trip to school: Examining how children’s active school travel is influenced by shortcuts in London, Canada","authors":"A. Clark, Emily Bent, J. Gilliland","doi":"10.1177/2F0265813515614678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2F0265813515614678","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84656,"journal":{"name":"Environment and planning. B, Planning & design","volume":"49 1","pages":"499"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88785957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review zu: Dimitris Ballas, Danny Droling and Benjamin Hennig, The social atlas of Europe","authors":"A. Coltekin","doi":"10.5167/UZH-117958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-117958","url":null,"abstract":"The Social Atlas of Europe, as the title suggests, takes on a job of mapping social issues in Europe using mainly cartograms. The book includes the European Union (EU) member and candidate countries as well as the European Economic Area (EEA) and the Schengen countries. The thematic coverage is as impressive as the geographic coverage: identity and culture, education, employment, industry and occupation, health, politics, economics, environment, social cohesion and policy; 21 different data sources are listed, among which EU-related official statistics appear to dominate, but the authors also make use of specific studies such as the European Values Survey1 or the very general ones such as the CIA World Factbook2, and occasionally Wikipedia or various newspapers and organizations.","PeriodicalId":84656,"journal":{"name":"Environment and planning. B, Planning & design","volume":"1 1","pages":"1162-1164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89623840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Neng Wan, Wenyu Qu, Jackie Whittington, Bradley C Witbrodt, Mary Pearl Henderson, Evan H Goulding, A Katrin Schenk, Stephen J Bonasera, Ge Lin
{"title":"Assessing Smart Phones for Generating Life-space Indicators.","authors":"Neng Wan, Wenyu Qu, Jackie Whittington, Bradley C Witbrodt, Mary Pearl Henderson, Evan H Goulding, A Katrin Schenk, Stephen J Bonasera, Ge Lin","doi":"10.1068/b38200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1068/b38200","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Life-space is a promising method for estimating older adults' functional status. However, traditional life-space measures are costly and time consuming because they often rely on active subject participation. This study assesses the feasibility of using the global positioning system (GPS) function of smart phones to generate life-space indicators. We first evaluated the location accuracy of smart phone collected GPS points versus those acquired by a commercial GPS unit. We then assessed the specificity of the smart phone processed life-space information against the traditional diary method. Our results suggested comparable location accuracy between the smart phone and the standard GPS unit in most outdoor situations. In addition, the smart phone method revealed more comprehensive life-space information than the diary method, which leads to higher and more consistent life-space scores. We conclude that the smart phone method is more reliable than traditional methods for measuring life-space. Further improvements will be required to develop a robust application of this method that is suitable for health-related practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":84656,"journal":{"name":"Environment and planning. B, Planning & design","volume":"40 2","pages":"350-361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1068/b38200","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35328561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building sustainable communities: spatial policy and labour mobility in post-war Britain by M. Raco (Policy Press, Bristol, 2007) [Review]","authors":"A. Giazitzoglu","doi":"10.1068/B4002REV","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1068/B4002REV","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84656,"journal":{"name":"Environment and planning. B, Planning & design","volume":"85 6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83587022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sara McLafferty, Fahui Wang, Lan Luo, Jared Butler
{"title":"Rural - urban inequalities in late-stage breast cancer: spatial and social dimensions of risk and access.","authors":"Sara McLafferty, Fahui Wang, Lan Luo, Jared Butler","doi":"10.1068/b36145","DOIUrl":"10.1068/b36145","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rural - urban inequalities in health and access to health care have long been of concern in health-policy formulation. Understanding these inequalities is critically important in efforts to plan a more effective geographical distribution of public health resources and programs. Socially and ethnically diverse populations are likely to exhibit different rural - urban gradients in health and well-being because of their varying experiences of place environments, yet little is known about the interplay between social and spatial inequalities. Using data from the Illinois State Cancer Registry, we investigate rural - urban inequalities in late-stage breast cancer diagnosis both for the overall population and for African-Americans, and the impacts of socioeconomic deprivation and spatial access to health care. Changes over time are analyzed from 1988 - 92 to 1998 - 2002, periods of heightened breast cancer awareness and increased access to screening. In both time periods, the risk of late-stage diagnosis is highest among patients living in the most urbanized areas, an indication of <i>urban</i> disadvantage. Multilevel modeling results indicate that rural - urban inequalities in risk are associated with differences in the demographic characteristics of area populations and differences in the social and spatial characteristics of the places in which they live. For African-American breast cancer patients, the rural - urban gradient is reversed, with higher risks among patients living outside the city of Chicago, suggesting a distinct set of health-related risks and place experiences that inhibit early breast cancer detection. Findings emphasize the need for combining spatial and social targeting in locating cancer prevention and treatment programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":84656,"journal":{"name":"Environment and planning. B, Planning & design","volume":"38 4","pages":"726-740"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3547633/pdf/nihms429217.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31176361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energiemonitor van de Nederlandse Paddenstoelensector 2008","authors":"J. Wildschut","doi":"10.18174/458059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18174/458059","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of the Dutch Meerjarenafspraak Energie covenant, WUR has monitored the energy use of mushroom companies. In 2016, the average Energy Efficiency Index (EEI) of all participating mushroom farms has increased to 81.8. The target of an EEI reduced to 73.0 has therefore not been realised. Farms cultivating exclusively white mushrooms did not realise the target either: Farms harvesting manually realised an EEI of 93.5 and farms harvesting mechanically realised an EEI of 75.9. Both an increased energy use per m2 and a reduced production per m2 resulted in an increased energy use per kg mushrooms. A 12% of the mushroom industries energy use is from renewables. However, as some farms use an unknown quantity of biomass as energy source, the real amount of renewable energy will higher than 12%. Though the Long-Term Agreement on Energy in Mushrooms has not been realised for 2016, some farms have realised very good results: These farms realised a 64 to 79% lower (fossil) energy use, or CO2-emission, than the average mushroom farm.","PeriodicalId":84656,"journal":{"name":"Environment and planning. B, Planning & design","volume":"179 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75370575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Space, Behavior, and Environmental Perception in Open Plan Offices: A Prospective Study","authors":"Mahbub Rashid, J. Wineman, C. Zimring","doi":"10.1068/B33034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1068/B33034","url":null,"abstract":"This prospective research study was conducted at a government office which moved from an open-plan office with somewhat enclosed workspaces to another open-plan office with open workspaces. The study at the old office was conducted almost one year before the move, and the study at the new office was conducted more than one year after the move. The purpose of this study was threefold: (1) to measure and evaluate changes in patterns of accessibility and visibility due to changes in office layout, (2) to understand the effects of layout changes on observed behaviors, and (3) to determine the effects of layout changes on environmental perception. The study included the analysis of visibility and accessibility of each layout using space syntax techniques, field observations of behaviors, and questionnaire surveys of employees’ perceptions of privacy, job satisfaction, and commitment to the organization. During field observations, movement, visible copresence (ie the number of people visible from a space), and face-to-face interaction were observed along a predefined route in each office. Thirty-five people responded to the questionnaire survey at the old office. Out of the thirty five, only twenty nine were available for survey at the new office. On the basis of the questionnaire survey data, three multi-item scales were constructed in order to measure perceived privacy, job satisfaction, and commitment to organization. Results indicate better visibility and accessibility, increased face-to-face interaction, and improved perceived privacy at the new office. Results also show consistent effects of space on movement, and significant positive correlations between perceived privacy, job satisfaction, and commitment to the organization at these locations, despite significant design differences. Implications of the research results and limitations of the research design are discussed.","PeriodicalId":84656,"journal":{"name":"Environment and planning. B, Planning & design","volume":"75 1","pages":"432-449"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77710504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measures of Spatial Accessibility to Healthcare in a GIS Environment: Synthesis and a Case Study in Chicago Region.","authors":"Wei Luo, Fahui Wang","doi":"10.1068/b29120","DOIUrl":"10.1068/b29120","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article synthesizes two GIS-based accessibility measures into one framework, and applies the methods to examining spatial accessibility to primary healthcare in the Chicago 10-county region. The floating catchment area method defines the service area of physicians by a threshold travel time while accounting for the availability of physicians by their surrounded demands. The gravity-based method considers a nearby physician more accessible than a remote one and discounts a physician's availability by a gravity-based potential. The former is a special case of the latter. Based on the 2000 Census and primary care physician data, this research assesses the variation of spatial accessibility to primary care in the Chicago region, and analyzes the sensitivity of results by experimenting with ranges of threshold travel times in the floating catchment area method and travel friction coefficients in the gravity model. The methods may be used to help the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and state Health Departments improve health professional shortage areas designation.</p>","PeriodicalId":84656,"journal":{"name":"Environment and planning. B, Planning & design","volume":"30 6","pages":"865-884"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8238135/pdf/nihms-1714490.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39052692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}