Urbanization, housing, and inclusive design for all? A community-based participatory research investigation of the health implications of high-rise environments for adolescents
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Increasing numbers of families are living in high-rise residences and densified areas of urban centres due to ongoing urbanization. A better understanding of how these environments impact the health of residents is of growing importance for planners and public health practitioners alike. Yet knowledge of the links between high-rise living and specific cohorts like adolescents is lacking. Moreover, youth perspectives are typically ignored in urban planning and building design practices. To address these issues, the present paper employs a community-based participatory research (CBRP) approach that is paired with the Theory of Affordances to investigate how adolescents ( n = 22) in two Canadian cities perceive high-rise living and dense environments to impact their mental and physical health. Data was collected between July and December 2023 through geo-tracked, participant-led ‘go-along’ (i.e., walking) interviews (40–120 min) roughly 1 km in length. Inductive thematic analyses supported by an analysis of the captured photos were completed. Noted positive affordances related to high local activity density, rich pedestrian social landscapes, restorative designs, and linkages between built and social environments. Negative affordance themes included poor social control and vitality, risky design legibility, signs of decay, and passive or limited active use designs. Future study is recommended to explore relational, or culturally/socially important public places or designs, and length of residence aspects of the relationship between high-rise living and adolescent health. Implications for design and health practitioners are discussed. • More young people are set to live in high-rise neighbourhoods due to urbanization. • Go-along interviews explored teen views of high-rise neighbourhood design affordances. • Positive affordances included local activity density, built and social landscape linkages. • Negative affordances included risky design legibility, social discord, signs of decay. • Planners may consider density designs that support teen needs for play, exploration.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".