We study changing trends in within-city sorting by education over the last 40 years. show that neighborhoods closest to centers of large US cities rose from having lowest levels college attainment 1980 highest 2017. discuss determinants changes patterns, focusing on role transportation technology and income growth. outline various consequences recent urbanization graduates neighborhood amenitie...

Despite the abundance of research on neighborhoods' effects on children, most studies of neighborhood effects are cross-sectional, rendering them unable to depict the dynamic nature of social life, and obscuring important aspects of community processes and outcomes. This study uses residential histories from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey and the Child Development Supplement of ...

BACKGROUND Using data from the SHAPE trial, a randomized 6-month neighborhood-based intervention designed to increase walking activity among older adults, this study identified and analyzed social-ecological factors mediating and moderating changes in walking activity. METHODS Three potential mediators (social cohesion, walking efficacy, and perception of neighborhood problems) and minutes of...

The purpose of this study was to examine the neighborhood environment and the association with weight change among overweight/obese individuals in the first six months of a 12-month weight loss intervention, EMPOWER, from 2011 to 2015. Measures of the neighborhood environment included neighborhood racial composition, neighborhood income, and neighborhood food retail stores density (e.g., grocer...

development, a concept that is called often to process of moving from point to another that covers various aspects such as economic growth, structural change, industrialization, self-actualization and cultural, religious, national and individual self-reliance. a sustainable development is a new concept of economic growth. a growth that is as justice and opportunity for all people that living in...

as it is commonly understood, urban neighborhoods play a significant role in developing urbansustainability as the smallest unit of city so that the formation and promotion of neighborhood identity, and focusingon social relationships would be in harmony with urban sustainability. it is believed that a dramatic change in spatialstructure of urban neighborhood include a decline in levels of poli...