TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - An activity-related land use mix construct and its connection to pedestrian travel
JO  - Environment and planning. B, urban analytics and city science
A1  - Gehrke, Steven R.
A1  - Clifton, Kelly J.
SP  - 9
EP  - 26
VL  - 46
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2399-8083
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399808317690157
ID  - ref1
ER  -