Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of objectively-assessed environmental attributes (medians and interquartile ranges)
| ALL CITIES | BEL | BRA | COL | CZE | DEN | HK | MEX | NZ | UK | USA | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental attribute | City A | City B | City C | City D | City E | City F | |||||||||
| Net residential density (1000 / km2) – 1 km bf | 2.4 (4.1) | 5.2 (11.4) | 4.7 (3.2) | 9.8 (3.1) | 18.9 (15.5) | 4.8 (9.6) | 65.5 (43.1) | 2.2 (1.2) | 1.7 (0.3) | 2.1 (0.9) | 2.5 (4.7) | 1.5 (0.5) | 4.2 (1.2) | 2.2 (1.9) | 1.5 (3.1) |
| Net residential density (1000 / km2) – 0.5 km bf | 2.6 (4.2) | 5.2 (8.3) | 4.8 (3.4) | 11.9 (6.1) | 15.2 (17.9) | 4.7 (14.9) | 60.9 (56.0) | 2.3 (1.9) | 1.7 (0.4) | 2.5 (1.0) | 2.1 (4.0) | 1.5 (0.7) | 4.1 (1.1) | 2.3 (2.0) | 1.4 (3.3) |
| Intersection density (per km2) – 1 km bf | 63 (55) | 73 (59) | 72 (22) | 254 (135) | 66 (25) | 86 (26) | 128 (89) | 133 (55) | 26 (9) | 28 (6) | 44 (19) | 36 (8) | 87 (38) | 71 (29) | 50 (27) |
| Intersection density (per km2) – 0.5 km bf | 68 (67) | 74 (73) | 80 (26) | 235 (176) | 74 (28) | 105 (39) | 163 (93) | 164 (113) | 29 (19) | 33 (16) | 41 (31) | 36 (13) | 116 (49) | 77 (39) | 55 (36) |
| Land use mix (3 uses) – 1 km bf | 0.46 (0.40) | 0.60 (0.50) | 0.58 (0.21) | 0.57 (0.46) | 0.59 (0.26) | 0.91 (0.35) | 0.88 (0.17) | 0.46 (0.28) | 0.37 (0.29) | 0.42 (0.37) | 0.53 (0.49) | 0.29 (0.27) | 0.20 (0.26) | 0.38 (0.29) | 0.39 (0.34) |
| Land use mix (3 uses) – 0.5 km bf | 0.35 (0.54) | 0.50 (0.54) | 0.51 (0.33) | 0.49 (0.42) | 0.54 (0.29) | 0.82 (0.44) | 0.83 (0.24) | 0.39 (0.49) | 0.23 (0.45) | 0.11 (0.45) | 0.31 (0.62) | 0.12 (0.24) | 0.14 (0.37) | 0.28 (0.49) | 0.23 (0.48) |
| Ratio retail and civic land area to total bf area – 1 km bfa | 0.09 (0.16) | 0.09 (0.21) | 0.13 (0.12) | 0.08 (0.16) | 0.04 (0.05) | 0.44 (0.64) | 0.59 (0.21) | 0.16 (0.21) | 0.07 (0.09) | 0.07 (0.08) | 0.13 (0.25) | 0.06 (0.10) | 0.02 (0.04) | 0.06 (0.06) | 0.08 (0.11) |
| Ratio retail and civic land area to total bf area – 0.5 km bfa | 0.07 (0.17) | 0.09 (0.23) | 0.13 (0.13) | 0.08 (0.13) | 0.04 (0.04) | 0.48 (0.90) | 0.71 (0.46) | 0.14 (0.26) | 0.05 (0.16) | 0.01 (0.09) | 0.08 (0.22) | 0.02 (0.07) | 0.02 (0.06) | 0.04 (0.10) | 0.05 (0.13) |
| Public transport density – 1 km bf | 14.3 (14.9) | 7.6 (11.3) | 25.4 (9.1) | 0.9 (3.1) | 14.5 (8.7) | 9.1 (6.8) | 13.0 (12.4) | 25.6 (29.2) | 19.7 (10.7) | 7.2 (8.6) | 15.1 (9.8) | 16.3 (10.5) | 24.0 (12.3) | 15.7 (13.8) | 13.5 (19.5) |
| Public transport density – 0.5 km bf | 14.1 (19.7) | 8.5 (10.9) | 23.6 (15.5) | 0.0 (2.3) | 14.4 (13.4) | 10.8 (10.4) | 10.0 (21.3) | 25.7 (48.6) | 20.0 (15.9) | 7.6 (9.9) | 20.7 (13.3) | 15.7 (17.3) | 26.3 (15.9) | 16.8 (22.0) | 13.6 (26.0) |
| Street network distance to nearest transport stop (m) | 239 (296) | 258 (210) | 162 (165) | 1343 (2966) | 233 (199) | 234 (234) | 353 (296) | 229 (509) | 190 (264) | 297 (311) | 149 (243) | 238 (299) | 194 (192) | 225 (318) | 264 (587) |
| No. parks contained or intersected by bf – 1 km bf | 4.0 (5.0) | 3.0 (5.0) | 5.0 (6.0) | 24.0 (19.0) | 2.0 (4.0) | 4.0 (4.0) | 11.0 (14.0) | 1.0 (2.0) | 10.0 (7.0) | 8.0 (5.0) | 4.0 (4.0) | 6.0 (3.0) | 2.0 (2.2) | 3.0 (5.0) | 2.0 (2.0) |
| No. parks contained or intersected by bf – 0.5 km bf | 1.0 (2.0) | 1.0 (2.0) | 1.0 (3.0) | 7.0 (5.0) | 1.0 (2.0) | 1.0 (2.0) | 3.0 (4.0) | 0.0 (1.0) | 4.0 (3.0) | 3.0 (2.0) | 1.0 (1.0) | 1.0 (1.0) | 1.0 (1.0) | 1.0 (2.0) | 1.0 (1.0) |
Notes: City A: North Shore, B: Waitakere, C: Wellington, D: Christchurch, E: Seattle, F: Baltimore; bf = buffer
a values truncated to 3.1 (1 value truncated for 1 km buffer measure and 22 for 0.5 km buffer measure). Since variables were positively skewed, medians and IQR are reported