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Jack L. Nasar is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans the social sciences and environmental science, with a focus on several subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, transportation, speech and hearing, sociology and political science, and urban studies.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Jack L. Nasar's recent papers highlight contributions to environmental and urban studies. Selected papers include:

  • "Investigating effects of environmental physical attributes on neighborhood walkability," 2023, City and Environment Interactions
  • "The assessed value of cultural destinations in Toronto," 2020, Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability
  • "Editorial: Biophilic design rationale: Theory, methods, and applications," 2022, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "A Splash and a Crowd: Do Water Fountains and Storefronts Improve Plaza's Visitability?," 2022, Environment and Behavior
  • "Dynamic experience of spaciousness, surprise and preference through indoor spaces (Experiencia dinámica de espaciosidad, sorpresa y preferencia en espacios interiores)," 2022, PsyEcology Bilingual Journal of Environmental Psychology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Nasar include:

  • Saleheh Bokharaei
  • Shoshanah B. D. Goldberg-Miller
  • Justin Reeves Meyer
  • Rita Berto
  • Giuseppe Barbiero

The publication venues where Nasar most often appears are:

  • City and Environment Interactions
  • Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Environment and Behavior
  • PsyEcology Bilingual Journal of Environmental Psychology

Best Publications

  • Fear of Crime in Relation to Three Exterior Site Features: Prospect, Refuge, and Escape

    Bonnie Sue Fisher;Jack Leon Nasar

  • The evaluative image of the city

    Jack Leon Nasar

  • Urban Design Aesthetics: The Evaluative Qualities of Building Exteriors

    Jack Leon Nasar

  • Pedestrian injuries due to mobile phone use in public places

    Jack Leon Nasar;Derek Troyer

  • Mobile telephones, distracted attention, and pedestrian safety

    Jack Leon Nasar;Peter Hecht;Richard Wener

  • "Hot spots" of fear and crime: A multi-method investigation.

    Jack Leon Nasar;Bonnie Sue Fisher

  • Landscapes of Fear and Stress

    Jack Leon Nasar;Kym M. Jones

  • Neighborhood satisfaction, physical and perceived naturalness and openness

    Misun Hur;Jack Leon Nasar;Bumseok Chun

  • Environmental aesthetics : theory, research, and applications

    Jack L. Nasar

  • The Psychological Sense of Community in the Neighborhood

    Jack Leon Nasar;David A. Julian

  • Environmental factors influencing older adults’ walking for transportation: a study using walk-along interviews.

    Jelle Van Cauwenberg;Jelle Van Cauwenberg;Veerle Van Holle;Dorien Simons;Riet Deridder

  • Proximate physical cues to fear of crime

    Jack Leon Nasar;Bonnie Sue Fisher;Margaret Grannis

  • The restorative effects of roadside vegetation: Implications for automobile driver Anger and frustration

    Jean Marie Cackowski;Jack Leon Nasar

  • The beauty and the beast: Some preliminary comparisons of ‘high’ versus ‘popular’ residential architecture and public versus architect judgments of same

    Kimberly Devlin;Jack L. Nasar

  • Symbolic Meanings of House Styles

    Jack Leon Nasar

  • Adult Viewers' Preferences in Residential Scenes A Study of the Relationship of Environmental Attributes to Preference

    Jack Leon Nasar

  • Evaluating Environmental Scenes Using Dynamic Versus Static Displays

    Harry Heft;Jack L. Nasar

  • Assessing perceptions of environments for active living.

    Jack Leon Nasar

  • Fear Spots in Relation to Microlevel Physical Cues: Exploring the Overlooked

    Bonnie Sue Fisher;Jack Leon Nasar

  • Visual Preferences in Urban Street Scenes A Cross-Cultural Comparison between Japan and the United States

    Jack Leon Nasar

  • Advances in Environmental Psychology.

    Jack Leon Nasar

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij Ghent University
Jo Salmon
Jo Salmon Deakin University
Liesbet Goubert
Liesbet Goubert Ghent University
Bonnie S. Fisher
Bonnie S. Fisher University of Cincinnati

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