Table 1.
Existing published and validated instruments that examine the physical environment of communities compared to the current instrument.
Table 2.
Communities studied.
Figure 1.
This diagram shows how the photos were taken. The cross indicates an intersection. The individual must stand at their start point and take photos of each direction from their start points. (front, 2 sides, back). Then they go across from where they were standing to take a picture of their start point. All the photos must show clear view of the street and roads in the neighbourhood without any cars, buildings or pedestrians blocking the view.
Table 3.
Features of communities and reliability of measures.
Table 4.
Reliability by region. Number of items and percentage of all items with ICC in the following ranges, 60 items in total.
Table 5.
Summary scores: Method to summarise scores based on combining constructs in similar domains.
Figure 2.
Examples of high scoring communities.
In these communities from urban Canada and rural Colombia the common high-scoring characteristics are complete sidewalks, several planted trees, traffic signals, and pedestrian traffic signs, well maintained buildings and roads and the presence of street furniture such as benches and street lamps.
Figure 3.
Examples of low-scoring communities.
These are pictures of 2 low scoring communities overall. You can see in communities from urban Canada and rural India there is partial or no sidewalks, not many crosswalks, not many planted trees or aesthetically pleasing features. In addition the buildings are not well maintained.
Table 6.
Mean Summary scores overall and by region and urban/rural.
Table 7.
Overall summary scores calculated by observer.