Schmitt (1966) found no negative correlation between neighborhood density and social indicators of mental health.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Schmitt (1966) found that mental health was better in a high-density Italian neighborhood (Boston's North End) than in comparable lower-density areas.finding0.850
  Demonstrates that physical density alone does not determine mental health; social structure matters.
• The health or lack of health of various places in a neighborhood, meter by meter, is widely recognized, felt more or less the same by everyone, and is an objective reality — not a matter of opinionclaim0.775
  Alexander's assertion that neighborhood quality assessment is objective, supported by Yodan Rose's study.
• Coleman 1985: negative environmental indicators (urine in passages, graffiti) showed high statistical reliability correlating with features of housing project designfinding0.737
  Empirical precedent for indirect measurement of wholeness, criticized for using mechanistic proxies rather than direct phenomenological reports
• Philosophical vocabulary is negatively correlated with scores in contemplative condition (model-level r=-0.72)finding0.734
  Models deploying more philosophy buzzwords score lower; battery measures beyond surface text features
• The relative percentages of the four colors largely encapsulates what is wrong with the neighborhood.claim0.732
  Claim that the area proportions alone diagnose neighborhood health.
• Gestalt psychologists' 1930s experiments established that all observers make figure-ground saliency judgments in more or less the same wayfinding0.732
  Foundational empirical support for the principle that subjective perceptual reports can be objective and shared
• Yodan Rose's North Beach study found high rank-order correlation (Kendall's rho) between different people's diagnoses of good and bad places along streets in North Beach, San Franciscofinding0.729
  Empirical evidence that neighborhood quality diagnosis is objective rather than merely a matter of opinion.
• The gestalt psychologists' 'goodness of figure' dependent on convexity, differentiation, and boundaries are precursors of the fifteen properties of living structureclaim0.725
  Alexander links his fifteen properties framework to prior empirical gestalt research, grounding it in established science