Neighborhood design, neighborhood location, and three types of walking: results from the Washington DC area
Neighborhood design, neighborhood location, and three types of walking: results from the Washington DC area
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10.1068/b130222p
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2015-01-01
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Rodriguez, Daniel A.
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Cho, Gi-Hyoug;Rodriguez, Daniel A.
了解社区规模的建筑环境如何与个人步行相关一直是公共卫生和城市规划中的一个共同研究目标。与现有文献不同的是，我们考察了在区域尺度上定义的社区的位置是否与步行相关，以及这种关联是否可以独立于社区建筑环境和步行的关联来识别。研究结果表明，以通勤为目的的步行与社区位置的关联比与社区建筑环境的关联更强，而以购物为目的的步行与社区建筑环境的关联更强。结果表明，如果没有为郊区提供更好的公共交通服务，郊区可步行社区的发展可能不会成功地鼓励步行通勤。
Understanding how the built environment at a neighborhood scale is associated with individuals' walking has been a common research objective in public health and city planning. In contrast to the extant literature, we examine whether a neighborhood's location defined at a regional scale is associated with walking and whether this association is separately identifiable from the association of the neighborhood built environment and walking. The findings indicated that walking for commuting purposes was associated more strongly with neighborhood location than with the neighborhood built environment, whereas walking for shopping-eating purposes had a stronger association with the neighborhood built environment. The results suggest that, without the provision of better public transportation services to suburban neighborhoods, walkable neighborhood development in suburbs may not be successful for encouraging walking for commuting.