Urban Residence
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Using GIS to Investigate Urban Forestry
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Margaret Workman and Kimberly Frye - Depaul University Urban forests broadly include urban parks, street trees, landscaped boulevards, public gardens, river and coastal promenades, greenways, river corridors, wetlands, nature preserves, natural areas, shelterbelts of trees, and working trees at industrial brownfield sites. The history of urban trees begins with trees as landscape embellishment. Today, urban trees are seen as essential components of city infrastructure...
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Design and Construction of an Urban Runoff Research Facility
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2014
This paper describes the design, construction, and function of a 1,000 m2 facility containing 24 individual 33.6 m2 field plots equipped for measuring total runoff volumes with time and collection of runoff subsamples at selected intervals for quantification of chemical constituents in the runoff water from simulated home lawns.
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Cities As Interfaces of Zoonotic Hazard Emergence: Development of the New York City Tick and Wildlife Urban Surveillance System
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2026
There is a critical need to monitor how ticks and their wildlife hosts respond to urbanization. This protocol outlines the steps for developing a standardized Tick and Wildlife Urban Surveillance System that will enable adaptive management in response to emerging tick-borne hazards in urban environments.
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The Resident-intruder Paradigm: A Standardized Test for Aggression, Violence and Social Stress
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2013
This video shows the resident-intruder paradigm in rats. This test is a standardized method to measure offensive aggression, defensive behavior and violence in a semi-natural setting. The use of the paradigm for social stress experiments is explained as well.
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Façade-Level Monitoring of CO2 Variability under Urban Heat Island Conditions using Low-Cost Sensor Data Loggers
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2025
A simple, effective environmental monitoring protocol to measure temperature, humidity, wind speed, and carbon dioxide variations across urban surfaces with differing sunlight exposure influenced by the urban heat island effect.
FAQs
Urban residence can influence health through several linked pathways rather than a single exposure. Air pollution, traffic, and noise may coexist with crowding or poor housing quality, while food availability, opportunities for physical activity, and proximity to medical services shape other risks and resources. Examining these conditions together helps medicine interpret patterns of disease within their environmental and social context.
Because urban health conditions interact, housing quality should be interpreted alongside crowding, pollution, traffic, noise, food availability, physical activity opportunities, and access to medical services. This approach avoids attributing a disease pattern to one feature alone. It also helps investigators identify which combinations of environmental and social conditions may contribute to unequal health experiences across city populations.
Proximity to medical services is one component of urban health, but it should be evaluated with the broader conditions affecting residents. Researchers can compare populations within an urban setting to examine disparities and determine whether differences in disease patterns or healthcare access align with environmental and social determinants. This prevents location from being treated as a uniform experience.
Researchers can assess urban residence by examining disease patterns alongside air pollution, traffic, noise, crowding, housing quality, physical activity opportunities, food availability, and proximity to medical services. They can then compare populations to distinguish environmental and social determinants and identify disparities in health or access. This framework supports interpretation without reducing urban health to one exposure.
In preventive medicine, urban residence is useful when health planning must account for conditions shared by city populations but experienced unevenly. Findings can guide targeted interventions that address environmental or social determinants, improve access to care, or reduce illness. The same perspective supports urban epidemiology by linking observed disease patterns with the settings in which people live.
Studies of urban residence can produce more than a description of where people live. They can reveal patterns of disease, clarify disparities between populations, and help separate environmental determinants from social determinants of health. Those findings provide evidence for health planning and policies aimed at reducing illness while improving access to medical services.