Journal article
Built Environment Change over Time Using Google Street View Assessments of Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Cities
Journal of urban health
04 Jun 2025
PMID: 40467920
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
Google Street View's historical imagery is a promising data source for measuring neighborhood conditions over time. However, images are not available for all years. To assess bias that may arise due to a mismatch between the year imagery is available and the year of researcher interest, we assessed prevalence of change in 20 commonly assessed built environment features between the oldest and newest available high-quality images (median difference 10.5 years, range from 2007 to 2023) on Street View at 2118 total locations in four US cities representing the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (New York City, Chicago, Miami, and San Diego). Seventeen (85%) of the features were the same in more than 90% of images; only litter differed in more than 20%. Patterns of change were consistent across all four cities and not notably different in tracts with higher or lower median household incomes. For built environment features reflecting sidewalk conditions and disinvestment in neighborhoods not selected for their known rapid change, auditing an image that does not temporally match the time of etiological interest is unlikely to be a major source of bias.
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- Title
- Built Environment Change over Time Using Google Street View Assessments of Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Cities
- Creators
- Stephen J Mooney - University of WashingtonCara M Smith - University of WashingtonElizabeth W Spalt - University of WashingtonLogan Piepmeier - University of WashingtonAmanda J Gassett - University of WashingtonGreta Gunning - University of WashingtonJordan A Carlson - Center for ChildrenKelly R Evenson - University of North Carolina at Chapel HillEarle C Chambers - Albert Einstein College of MedicineMartha Daviglus - University of Illinois ChicagoGina S Lovasi - Drexel UniversityPedro T Gullón - Universidad de AlcaláJana A Hirsch - Drexel UniversityJesse J Plascak - The Ohio State UniversityAndrew G Rundle - Columbia UniversityDustin Fry - Northern Research StationMichael D M Bader - Johns Hopkins UniversityJoel D Kaufman - University of WashingtonRobert Kaplan - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Publication Details
- Journal of urban health
- Publisher
- SPRINGER; NEW YORK
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- R01ES030994 / NIEHS NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Strategy; Urban Health Collaborative; Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health; Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001501890600001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105007239280
- Other Identifier
- 991022055080704721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health