Children Talk about Their New York City Neighborhoods - The Role of Subjective and Objective Neighborhood Evaluations in Understanding Child Health

What do New York City children have to say about their neighborhoods?Neighborhood research the body of work exploring the link between theneighborhood context and residents' health has received increasing attentionin recent years. Despite the recent growth of neighborhood researchthere has been surprisingly little attention to what children themselves sayabout the neighborhoods they live in. This study moves beyond traditional researchby examining children's views of their inner-city New York City neighborhoodsto inform on the neighborhood attributes most important to them.The research then explores the relationship between different neighborhoodmeasurements (children's and parents' evaluations of neighborhood conditionscensus data and neighborhood observations by outside raters) andtheir association with children's health. The study answers questions such aswhat is the relationship between subjective and objective neighborhoodmeasures and whose ratings of neighborhood characteristics matter mostto children's health. The book is directed towards scholars and researchers inurban health urban planning child development and interdisciplinarystudies.