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Sullivan , William C. Ding, Yizhen 2019-11-26T20:35:16Z 2019-11-26T20:35:16Z 2019-07-18 2019-08 The impact of the built environment on how children and parents make decisions about walking to school has attracted the attention of designers, planners, and policymakers. Yet we know little about the impact of the micro-scale environment of the sidewalk on these decisions about walking to school. This lack of knowledge may lead to a lack of infrastructure investment that would support walkable neighborhoods. This study examines a variety of characteristics in the micro-scale environment and the reactions of parents and students to these characteristics as they think about walking to school. 976 participants were recruited online, at an urban park, and at a museum, and were asked to evaluate simulated sidewalk images. Participants most preferred images that included large trees along sidewalks, as well as settings that included sidewalks far from the street rather than close to the street. Children expressed a slightly greater preference for settings with trees along the street and for the attractiveness of the setting, as compared to adults. The contributions of these findings are discussed in relation to a variety of efforts to create walkable communities. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2019-11-26 without embargo terms The student, Yizhen Ding, accepted the attached license on 2019-07-18 at 11:26. The student, Yizhen Ding, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-07-18 at 12:04. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-07-18 at 16:30. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14377 on 2019-11-26 at 12:54:18 Made available in DSpace on 2019-11-26T20:35:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 DING-THESIS-2019.pdf: 1174938 bytes, checksum: 799584183b2387f1a6f1e4bf6e6bdecc (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4208 bytes, checksum: c30448fc606dc1afebf35014e1231022 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2019-07-18 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/105719 en Copyright 2019 Yizhen Ding landscape sidewalk landscape walking to school active transportation to school built environment Preferences for walking-to-school environments: Exploring landscape designs that are most welcomed by children and parents text text Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.L.A.