We examined the link between household chaos (i.e., noise, clutter, disarray, lack of routines) and maternal executive function (i.e., effortful regulation of attention and memory), and whether it varied as a function of socioeconomic risk (i.e., single parenthood, lower mother and father educational attainment, housing situation, and father unemployment). We hypothesized that: 1) higher levels...

This article uses the evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Urban Health Initiative (UHI), a 10-year effort to improve health and safety outcomes in distressed cities, to demonstrate the strength of an evaluation design that integrates theory of change and quasiexperimental approaches, including the use of comparison cities. This paper focuses on the later stages of implemen...

Only a couple of decades ago urban movements were demanding, usually without much success, increased participation by the grassroots and a democratization of urban politics. Even though they staged what were perceived as ‘urban revolts’ (Castells, 1983: 65) and ‘backyard revolutions’ (Boyte, 1980), the structures of local decisionmaking did not open up very far; established interests in urban r...

Abstract It can be argued that a society is never better than how Individuals on its social and spatial fringes are faring. This motivates the purpose of this paper, which to study vulnerable groups identified, defined explored in perspective using latent class analysis (LCA) whole Swedish population. We use space refine meanings vulnerability individuals groups, by contextualizing their vulner...

The Quantified Community (QC)—a long-term neighborhood informatics research initiative—is a network of instrumented urban neighborhoods that collect, measure, and analyze data on physical and environmental conditions and human behavior to better understand how neighborhoods and the built environment affect individual and social well-being. This initiative is intended to create a data-enabled re...

Sustainability is observed in many aspects and elements of traditional Iranian architecture, plannerand landscape architecture, and this method was used to solve many problems for many countries. The aim of thisarticle is to achieve a sustainable approach in planning urban renewal projects to identify the relationship betweenurban design considerations and the sustainable development objectives...

this article has been done having the objective of proposed principles regarding the role of urban decline areas and being impressionable in reducing crime. it was an investigation on urban crimes in decline areas, and finally the implementation of an approach that will lead to the creation of a healthy city. the result of this article is application of the urbanization principles aiming at hav...

It is notable that indoor environment quality plays a crucial role in guaranteeing health, especially if we consider people spend more than 90% of their time indoors, percentage increases for on low income. This assumes even further significance when dealing with distressed urban areas, vulnerable areas within cities suffer from multiple deprivations. The community-based interdisciplinary resea...

BACKGROUND Substantial epidemiological research has shown that psychotic experiences are more common in densely populated areas. Many patients with persecutory delusions find it difficult to enter busy social urban settings. The stress and anxiety caused by being outside lead many patients to remain in-doors. We therefore developed a brief CBT intervention, based upon a formulation of the way u...