Multiple studies have revealed the impact of walkable environments on physical activity. Scholars attach considerable importance to leisure and health-related walking. Recent studies have used Google Street View as an instrument to assess city streets and walkable environments; however, no study has compared the validity of Google Street View assessments of walkable environment attributes to as...

With the rapid growth of information and communication technologies, the attempt for more convenient, safe, and sustainable urban development has been going around the world. The Korean government has launched a R&D project to develop a new software platform that supports the smart city applications such as transportation, anti-disaster, anti-crime, and eco-friendly environment. This paper repo...

STUDY POPULATION. Four hundred students with physiciandiagnosed asthma attending inner-city elementary schools are currently being recruited from screening surveys collected during the spring and phenotypically characterized at baseline in the summer in an ongoing longitudinal study (SICAS [School Inner-City Asthma Study]). The primary purpose of the study is to evaluate the role of indoor alle...