Citation

Moran MR, Eizenberg E, Plaut P. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2017; 14(6): e14060607.

Affiliation

Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel. pninatech@gmail.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/ijerph14060607

PMID

28587315

Abstract

The literature on environmental walkability to date has mainly focused on walking and related health outcomes. While previous studies suggest associations between walking and spatial knowledge, the associations between environmental walkability and spatial knowledge is yet to be explored. The current study addresses this lacuna in research by exploring children's mental representations of their home-school (h-s) route, vis.

Language: en

Keywords

built environment; children; school travel mode; spatial knowledge; walkability