Residential segregation has been one of the more frequently studied and controversial research and policy issues for urban researchers and policy makers during the last few decades. residential segregation refers to the concentration or uneven distribution of residents from different socio-economic or racial/ ethnic backgrounds across a city or region. Although research on residential segregati...

Spatial boundaries are a defining feature of a city’s social and spatial organization. Rivers, highways, and train tracks create excess distance between nearby locations and often mark social separation – they become dividing lines that are well known to residents. Qualitative studies are rich with insight about the local significance of boundaries, but they have been largely ignored in the qua...

INTRODUCTION Care giving for children with chronic diseases can lead to financial strain and compromised family well being. Little is known about whether these stresses lead to changes in residential movement patterns as they relate to income adequacy and proximity to care. METHODS We compared the residential movement patterns and associated changes in neighbourhood income of children with mi...

To assess the impacts of different types of human activity on the development of resistant bacteria in the feces of wild small mammals, we compared the prevalences and patterns of antimicrobial resistance and resistance genes in generic Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica isolates from fecal samples collected from wild small mammals living in four environments: swine farms, residential are...

Understanding how human land use patterns influence mosquito ecology and the risk of mosquito-borne pathogens is critical for the development of disease management strategies. We examined how different environments influenced mosquito species composition, abundance, and West Nile virus (WNV) infection rates in central Illinois. Using a combination of gravid traps and CDC light traps, adult mosq...

The residential sector has become the second largest energy consumer in China. Urban consumption (URE) China is growing rapidly process of urbanization. This paper aims to reveal spatiotemporal dynamic evolution and influencing mechanism URE heterogeneity during 2007–2018 explored through Kernel density estimation inequality measures (i.e., Gini coefficient, Theil index, mean logarithmic deviat...

The neighbourhood is recognized as an important unit of analysis in research on the relation between obesogenic environments and development of obesity. One important challenge is to define the limits of the residential neighbourhood, as perceived by study participants themselves, in order to improve our understanding of the interaction between contextual features and patterns of obesity. An in...