Diagnosing Urban Design
b'In this follow-up interview to our \\u201cSloth: Is Your City Making You Fat?\\u201d event, Dr. Mariela Alfonzo, a research fellow in urban and regional planning at NYU-Poly and founder of State of Place, discusses the application of statistical analysis to the study of urban design and public health.\\n\\n\\nDr. Alfonzo is a research fellow in urban and regional planning at NYU-Poly and the founder of State of Place, a diagnostic tool for determining the walkability of a place in relation to economic indicators to inform evidence-based policy decisions.'