Street view-derived city built environment and vulnerability to temperature extremes: a nationally representative population-based cohort study
Wanzhou Wang, Chao Yang, Ze Liang, Fulin Wang, Jinwei Wang, Feifei Zhang, Pengfei Li, Luxia Zhang · 2025
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Description
Eight authors, led by Wanzhou Wang, wrote this 2025 cohort study of how city design shapes risk from extreme heat and cold. City form can raise or lower how much harm hot and cold spells do to residents. Solid proof from large population studies, though, has been scarce.
The team followed 21,494 city residents from a national cohort. Heat waves and cold spells were set by local cutoffs at each home address and had to last at least three days. Street view photos within 500 meters of each home were scored by a deep learning program to map the built surroundings. The authors then tested how those surroundings changed the link between extreme weather days and death. Each extra day of heat wave or cold spell per year, they report, was tied to higher risk.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wanzhou Wang, Chao Yang, Ze Liang, Fulin Wang, Jinwei Wang, Feifei Zhang, Pengfei Li, Luxia Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |