title: Neighborhood Physical Disorder in New York City.
abstract: Neighborhood physical disorder, or the deterioration of urban environments, is associated with negative mental and physical health outcomes. Eleven trained raters used CANVAS, a web-based system for conducting reliable virtual street audits, to collect data on nine indicators of physical disorder using Google Street View imagery of 532 block faces in New York City, New York, USA. We combined the block face indicator data into a disorder scale using item response theory; indicators ranged in severity from presence of litter, a weak indicator of disorder, to abandoned cars, a strong indicator. Using this scale, we estimated disorder at the center point of each sampled block. We then used ordinary kriging to interpolate estimates of disorder levels throughout the city. The resulting map condenses a complex estimation process into an interpretable visualization of the spatial distribution of physical disorder in New York City.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W 168 St 7 Floor, New York NY 10032, jq2145@columbia.edu .
authors.forename: James W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Quinn
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W 168 St 7 Floor, New York NY 10032, sjm2186@columbia.edu .
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Mooney
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W 168 St 7 Floor, New York NY 10032, dms2203@columbia.edu.
authors.forename: Daniel M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Sheehan
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York NY 10027, New York NY 10027, jot8@columbia.edu .
authors.forename: Julien O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Teitler
authors.affiliation: Columbia Population Research Center, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 715, New York NY 10027, kmn2@columbia.edu .
authors.forename: Kathryn M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Neckerman
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W 168 St 8 Floor, New York NY 10032, tkk2109@columbia.edu .
authors.forename: Tanya K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Kaufman
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W 168 St 8 Floor, New York NY 10032, gl2225@columbia.edu .
authors.forename: Gina S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Lovasi
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Center on Health, Risk and Society, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016, bader@american.edu .
authors.forename: Michael D M
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Bader
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th Street, New York NY 10032, agr3@columbia.edu .
authors.forename: Andrew G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Rundle