Article history: Received 5 April 2016 Received in revised form 14 September 2016 Accepted 15 September 2016 Available online 15 September 2016 In 2013, San Francisco was one of eight sites funded by Partnership for a Healthier America to implement Play Streets, a smaller-scale Open Streets-type initiative, aimed at increasing physical activity (PA) among children and youth by closing neighborh...

One of the most important issues in today&rsquos urban world is increasing use of cars and its noise pollution, which is now one of the most important affecting pollutants on health and quality of lives of residents in urban areas. Noise pollution effects on various aspects of human and the community health as well as the high cost of treatment, thus more studies in this field is needed. Hence ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate if the population living along streets with high traffic density has a higher prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms. METHODS A sample of 673 adults and 106 children (0-15 years), living along busy traffic streets in the city of Haarlem was compared with a control sample of 812 adults and 185 children living along quiet streets. Exposed and control streets were s...

“a city can be read through its streets”. stéphane douady, professor of dynamics of out-of-equilibrium systems in paris diderot university began his speech with these words. he continued by explaining the significance of the street structure: “when we think of a city, we first think of the houses. while they can be replaced when destroyed or abandoned, the streets remain stable”. dr. douady’s m...

We explore geometry of London’s streets using computational mode of an excitable chemical system, Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) medium. We virtually fill in the streets with a BZ medium and study propagation of excitation waves for a range of excitability parameters, gradual transition from excitable to subexcitable to non-excitable. We demonstrate a pruning strategy adopted by the medium with decr...

In the present effort, we present a knowledge tier platform to collect information from cities in a form of graphs. This platform enables people to share the information of the area where they live allowing them to inform about pollution, crime levels, traffic jams, streets topology, commerces, markets, etc. The main objective is to provide information, stored in Elastic about a city to find sp...

conclusions in comparison with road traffic accidents on city streets, trauma patients in rtas on roads out of the city have longer pre-hospital time intervals and more severe injuries; therefore this group needs more pre-hospital resuscitation interventions. results findings of this study showed that, 75% of rtas occurred on city streets (n = 1 251). motor-car accidents were the most frequent ...