Density, destinations or both? A comparison of measures of walkability in relation to transportation behaviors, obesity and diabetes in Toronto, Canada.

Density, destinations or both? A comparison of measures of walkability in relation to transportation behaviors, obesity and diabetes in Toronto, Canada.

The design of suburban communities encourages car dependency and discourages walking, characteristics that have been implicated in the rise of obesity. Walkability measures have been developed to capture these features of urban built environments. Our objective was to examine the individual and comb...

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Main Authors: Richard H Glazier, Maria I Creatore, Jonathan T Weyman, Ghazal Fazli, Flora I Matheson, Peter Gozdyra, Rahim Moineddin, Vered Kaufman-Shriqui, Gillian L Booth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3891889?pdf=render

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