Predicting Perceptions of the Built Environment using GIS, Satellite and Street View Image Approaches.

ABSTRACT:

Background

High quality built environments are important for human health and wellbeing. Numerous studies have characterized built environment physical features and environmental exposures, but few have examined urban perceptions at geographic scales needed for population-based research. The degree to which urban perceptions are associated with different environmental features, and traditional environmental exposures such as air pollution or urban green space, is largely unknown.

Objective

To determine built environment factors associated with safety, lively and beauty perceptions across 56 cities.

Methods

We examined perceptions collected in the open source Place Pulse 2.0 dataset, which assigned safety, lively and beauty scores to street view images based on crowd-s

SUBMITTER: Larkin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8494182 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature