AIA Design & Health Series: PARK DESIGN for physical activity & health
This report is part of a series produced by the American Institute of Architects. Individually, the reports affirm six evidence-based design approaches that positively influence human health through design practices and policies: environmental quality, natural systems, physical activity, safety, sensory environments, and social connectedness. Collectively, they represent an intellectual and practical convergence of design and health essential to designing a better world.
The series converges architecture with public health and leads designers to ask:
1. What part of public health belongs to design?
2. How do we drive design into codes and standards to intentionally achieve positive health outcomes?
3. How can design solutions address a wide range of health outcomes as a question of equity?
Author:
Bianca Shulaker; Jennifer Isakoff; Tori Kjer; and Kelley Hart
Resource Date:
April, 2014
Resource Type:
Topics:
Health / Physical Activity, Environmental Health / Built Environment, Community / Social Environment
URL:
http://www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/aia/documents/pdf/aiab104695.pdf