@article{ref1,
title="An activity-related land use mix construct and its connection to pedestrian travel",
journal="Environment and planning. B, urban analytics and city science",
year="2019",
author="Gehrke, Steven R. and Clifton, Kelly J.",
volume="46",
number="1",
pages="9-26",
abstract="Integrating a diverse set of land use types within a neighborhood is a central tenet of smart growth policy. Over a generation of urban planning research has heralded the transportation, land use, and public health benefits arising from a balanced supply of local land uses, including the improved feasibility for pedestrian travel. However, land use mixing has largely remained a transportation-land use planning goal without a conceptually valid set of environmental indicators quantifying this multifaceted spatial phenomenon. In this study, we incorporated activity-based transportation planning and landscape ecology theory within a confirmatory factor analysis framework to introduce a land use mix construct indicative of the paired landscape pattern aspects of composition and configuration. We found that our activity-related land use mix measure, and not the commonly adopted entropy-based index, predicted walk mode choice and home-based walk trip frequency when operationalized at three geographic scales.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2399-8083",
doi="10.1177/2399808317690157",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399808317690157"
}