Showcasing relationships between neighborhood design and wellbeing Toronto indicators

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2020, Pages

  Shaker, Richard R ^a,b   Aversa, Joseph ^a   Papp, Victoria ^a   Serre, Bryant M ^a   Mackay, Brian R ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GeoEco Design   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Data dashboard; Landscape indicators; Premature mortality; Spatial autoregressive modeling; Streetscapes; Sustainable urbanization; Toronto; Urban design; Urban landscape; Urban planning; Walk score

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DATA SET; DIVERSITY INDEX; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOCAL PLANNING; MONITORING SYSTEM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 85081220429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su12030997     Document Type: Article

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