BACKGROUND This paper analyzes the experience of crowding through a biopsychosocial approach to human behavior which empirically joins different dimensions that the literature has analyzed separately. The main aim consists of identifying factors involved in perceived crowding from (a) the emotional response and affective meaning (BIO dimension); (b) the perception of psychological well-being an...

Associations between histories of family disruption (residential moves and separations from parent figures) and adolescent adjustment (including educational, internalizing, externalizing, and sexual behavior outcomes) were examined in a random sample of 267 African American girls from 3 urban poverty neighborhoods. Higher numbers of residential moves and parental separations significantly predi...

This study is part of a comprehensive process in the City of New Bern, North Carolina aimed at drafting a subdivision regulatory framework that promotes sustainable residential developments with a heightened sense of community and vitality. The aim is to develop an objective assessment tool for new subdivision plans. Issues considered in this assessment include intra-and-inter-neighborhood conn...

The dominant approach in the literature to dealing with sample selection is to assume a bivariate normality assumption directly on the error terms, or on transformed error terms, in the discrete and continuous equations. Such an assumption can be restrictive and inappropriate, since the implication is a linear and symmetrical dependency structure between the error terms. In this paper, we intro...

A mounting body of research shows strong positive associations between urban nature and child well-being, including benefits related to mental physical health. However, there is also evidence that children are spending less time in natural environments than previous generations, especially those living deprived neighborhoods. To date, most studies analyzing children’s (unequal) exposure or acce...

The notion of exterior space consists of a topological space together with a certain nonempty family of open subsets that is thought of as a ‘system of open neighborhoods at infinity’ while an exterior map is a continuous map which is ‘continuous at infinity’. The category of spaces and proper maps is a subcategory of the category of exterior spaces. In this paper we show that the category of e...

This research is done with an aim to compare the quality of housing in the two common appartment form on the rendering of main indexes of housing quality through two pre-designed neighbourhoods of Haft HozNeighborhood and the first phase of Ekbatan residential complex in the city of Tehran. Indexes of housing quality are extracted from the internal and external resources and are subjected to qu...

This article presents the methodology and results of a pioneering investigation in determination mapping socio-residential vulnerability city Barcelona according to multi-criteria synthetic analysis. The followed is based on system indicators elaborated from exploitation habitual statistical Open Data complemented with specific unprecedented data supplied by City Council. analysis secondary it ...