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Hall, C. Michael; Ram, Yael; Shoval, Noam

doi:10.4324/9781315638461-1

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“…Research has shown that older adults are more active in neighborhoods with certain built environment attributes. Those attributes include the proximity to various destinations, street connectivity, availability of paths for walking, availability of public transportation facilities, environmental aesthetics, and safety [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ]. For example, access to parks or recreational facilities in neighborhoods is positively related to higher rates of transport walking for older adults living in retirement villages [ 10 ].…”

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The Association of Built Environment and Physical Activity in Older Adults: Using a Citywide Public Housing Scheme to Reduce Residential Self-Selection Bias

Lü

Chen

Yang

et al. 2018

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Previous studies have documented numerous health benefits of conducting regular physical activity among older adults. The built environment is believed to be a key factor that can hinder or facilitate daily physical activity, such as walking and exercising. However, most empirical studies focusing on environment-physical activity associations exhibited residential self-selection bias with cross-sectional research design, engendering doubts about the impact of built environment on physical activity. To reduce this bias, we assessed physical activity behaviors of 720 Hong Kong older adults (≥65 years) residing in 24 public housing estates. The Hong Kong public housing scheme currently provides affordable rental flats for 2.1 million people or approximate 30% of total population. The applicants were allocated to one of 179 housing estates largely by family size and flat availability. Built environment characteristics were measured following the ‘5Ds’ principle: (street network) design, (land-use) diversity, density, distance to transit, and destination accessibility. Multilevel mixed models were used to explore the associations between the built environment and the different domains of physical activity (transportation walking, recreational walking, and recreational moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) while controlling for potential estate-level socioeconomic and individual confounders. We found that transportation walking was positively associated with the number of bus stops and the presence of Mass Transit Railway (MTR) stations. Recreational MVPA was positively related to the number of recreational facilities. However, land-use mix was negatively related to transportation walking, recreational walking, and recreational MVPA. The findings of this study support a threshold effect in the environment-physical activity associations. Furthermore, large-scale public housing schemes involving random or semi-random residence assignment in many cities may provide opportunities to explore built environments and physical activity behavior, with the potential to overcome residential self-selection bias.

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The Association of Built Environment and Physical Activity in Older Adults: Using a Citywide Public Housing Scheme to Reduce Residential Self-Selection Bias

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Chen

Yang

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“…For that reason, customers of premium fitness centers could be willing to walk longer distances or travel to less walk-friendly areas. This phenomenon has also been detected in the tourism sector [ 2 , 46 ] since tourists are willing to walk longer distances to locations with a lower Walk Score ® in order to enjoy the most popular tourist attractions.…”

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Walkability and Fitness Center Prices, Opening Hours, and Extra Services: The Case of Madrid, Spain

León-Quismondo

Bonal

Burillo

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Walkability has been associated with urban development and political plans, contributing to more connected cities with improvements in communication, shopping, and pedestrian base. Among these services, fitness centers are becoming important elements for communities due to their impact on the health and welfare of citizens. The present study aims to examine how an area’s Walk Score® affects fitness center services, specifically membership costs, opening hours, and aquatic services. Data from 193 fitness centers were retrieved, representing all the areas of the municipality of Madrid, Spain, including fitness centers in the 21 city districts. A nonlinear relationship between an area’s Walk Score® and fitness centers’ monthly fees is observed. Only in premium fitness centers, a weak curvilinear model is observed, following a quadratic equation, showing that fitness centers with higher prices are in less walkable areas. Additionally, the association between Walk Score® and a fitness center’s opening hours reveals that fitness centers with wider hours of operation tend to be in moderately to highly walkable locations. Lastly, the existence of a swimming pool is related to a lower Walk Score®. Thus, fitness centers in less walkable areas try to offer additional services as differentiation from competitors, whereas centers in walkable locations use this advantage as a strength.

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“…In light of the endless array of historical and contemporary walking practices (Hall et al, 2018), walking wanders easily into all kinds of disciplines and schools of thought, often trespassing their boundaries (Solnit, 2002). As a consequence, a large body of writing is dedicated to the thought, practice and institutional conditions of walking (Amato, 2004; Burckhardt, 2015; Gros, 2014; Solnit, 2002).…”

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“…Therefore, we seek to develop a pedagogy of affect in which walking, movement and embodied participation are core to the learning process. To do so, we relate our students’ experiences of fieldwork by walking the urban labyrinth of streets and hanging around certain neighbourhoods to the literature on walking (Hall et al, 2018) and we articulate and conceptualise these practices through the nexus of straying, drifting and witnessing.…”

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Unsettling bodies of knowledge: Walking as a pedagogy of affect

Beyes

Steyaert

2020

Management Learning

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In this article, we connect with recent attempts to rethink management learning as an embodied and affective process and we propose walking as a significant learning practice of a pedagogy of affect. Walking enables a postdualist view on learning and education. Based on course work focused on urban ethnography, we discuss walking as affect-pedagogical practice through the intertwined activities of straying, drifting and witnessing, and we reflect upon the implications for a pedagogy of affect. In conclusion, we speculate about the potential of a pedagogy of affect for future understandings and practices of management learning.

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The Association of Built Environment and Physical Activity in Older Adults: Using a Citywide Public Housing Scheme to Reduce Residential Self-Selection Bias

The Association of Built Environment and Physical Activity in Older Adults: Using a Citywide Public Housing Scheme to Reduce Residential Self-Selection Bias

Walkability and Fitness Center Prices, Opening Hours, and Extra Services: The Case of Madrid, Spain

Unsettling bodies of knowledge: Walking as a pedagogy of affect

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