http://www.beh.columbia.edu/ The Built Environment and Health (BEH) project is an interdisciplinary program of research at Columbia University led by epidemiologist Andrew Rundle. The research uses spatial data from New York City to examine the impact of land use, public transit, and housing, on physical activity, diet, obesity, and other aspects of health. The RSS feed includes the latest announcements and articles. en-us Copyright © 2006 Built Environment and Health project. All rights reserved. beh@columbia.edu Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:49:59 GMT beh@columbia.edu http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.beh.columbia.edu/rss/logo.jpg http://www.beh.columbia.edu/ 144 100 http://www.beh.columbia.edu/announcements/race_poverty_and_spatial_accessibility.html With new funding from the National Science Foundation, the BEH group will use data for New York City to describe how neighborhood access to everyday retail and services is patterned by race and poverty, and to examine change in these patterns over the past decade. The research will consider how gentrification, immigration, and public policy have affected spatial accessibility.

]]> Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:30:00 GMT http://www.beh.columbia.edu/announcements/race_poverty_and_spatial_accessibility.html http://www.beh.columbia.edu/announcements/spatial_equity.html Marnie Purciel, now a Research Associate at BEH, graduated in May 2007 from Columbia University with dual master’s degrees in Urban Planning and Public Health. Her thesis, “Spatial Equity in New York City Neighborhoods” received the Charles Abrams award for the best quantitative thesis in the Urban Planning program this year.

]]> Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.beh.columbia.edu/announcements/spatial_equity.html http://www.beh.columbia.edu/announcements/hood.html There Goes the ’Hood, a new book by BEH investigator Lance Freeman, examines the process of gentrification in two New York City neighborhoods. The book is based on interviews with residents of Harlem and of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

]]> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:50:50 GMT http://www.beh.columbia.edu/announcements/hood.html http://www.beh.columbia.edu/announcements/measuring_design.html With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Active Living Research program, the BEH group is developing digital measures of urban design for New York City. The measures will be validated using fieldwork conducted in summer 2006.

]]> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:50:49 GMT http://www.beh.columbia.edu/announcements/measuring_design.html http://www.beh.columbia.edu/articles/tree_asthma.html Asthma is an important cause of hospitalizations, medical costs, and mortality for children and adults. Childhood asthma prevalence increased by 50% in the US from 1980 to 2000. A better understanding of environmental influences on asthma prevalence could help reverse this trend. Using data from a 1995 New York City street tree census, the BEH group examined the ecological association between tree density and childhood asthma.

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