Keeping Older People Moving (12-11-12)
Nathan, Wood, and Giles-Corti move knowledge on designing for exercise forward.
Nathan, Wood, and Giles-Corti move knowledge on designing for exercise forward.
The American Planning Association (APA) has announced its 2012 Great Places in America at https://www.planning.org/greatplaces/.
People interested in urban design will find Speck’s book useful, even if they do not generally focus on designing to enhance the health of the public or the planet.
Previous research reported here indicates that growing up on a cul-de-sac has definite advantages, for example, increasing play opportunities for younger children.
Researchers have investigated the design of environments that promote children’s health, from pediatric hospitals to neighborhood streets to play areas.
More research supports the connection between the physical environment and neighborhood social relations, and adds to our understanding about specific features that draw both old and young outdoors.
Research to identify factors that encourage people to walk more frequently (instead of, for example, driving) in some environments than others has been regularly published during the last few years.
Hekler and his colleagues investigated “if key within-person factors (i.e., implementation intentions, social support, affect and self-efficacy) would be associated with walking and if perceived access to supportive environments (e.g., access to nice walking paths) and perceived environmental barriers (e.g., bad weather and safety issues) were uniquely associated with walking.”
Troy and his colleagues investigated the relationship between tree cover and crime.
The idea of airport-centered cities is not new, but Lindsay and Kasarda provide an interesting discussion of the concept in their book, Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next.