TY - SER AU - Gehrke, Steven R AU - Clifton, Kelly J TI - Activity-related land use mix construct and its connection to pedestrian travel PY - 2019/// PB - Sage KW - Land use mix, KW - built environment, KW - smart growth KW - travel behavior, KW - pedestrian models N2 - Integrating a diverse set of land use types within a neighborhood is a central tenet of smart growth policy. Over a generation of urban planning research has heralded the transportation, land use, and public health benefits arising from a balanced supply of local land uses, including the improved feasibility for pedestrian travel. However, land use mixing has largely remained a transportation-land use planning goal without a conceptually valid set of environmental indicators quantifying this multifaceted spatial phenomenon. In this study, we incorporated activity-based transportation planning and landscape ecology theory within a confirmatory factor analysis framework to introduce a land use mix construct indicative of the paired landscape pattern aspects of composition and configuration. We found that our activity-related land use mix measure, and not the commonly adopted entropy-based index, predicted walk mode choice and home-based walk trip frequency when operationalized at three geographic scales UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808317690157 ER -