Places for Kids
Well-informed designers know that children do not respond to spaces simply as short adults, and researchers have been carefully investigating walking to school, daylight preferences, and traffic crossing dangers for children.
Well-informed designers know that children do not respond to spaces simply as short adults, and researchers have been carefully investigating walking to school, daylight preferences, and traffic crossing dangers for children.
Nearby nature—new research reveals the difficulties of enticing working adults and children into outdoor spaces, but it also hints at solutions.
Researchers at the University of Exeter have completed research that supports including fitness centers in corporate campuses and similar complexes.
Researchers at Queen’s University have confirmed common sense expectations about road design and children’s outdoor play.
Badger reviews research related to the planning of suburban communities, and shares that information with readers outside the design world.
Hekler and his colleagues have studied the utilitarian and leisure walking of a set of people between 56 and 72 years old.
Kline and his colleagues have determined that national forests help us live healthier lives.
Public health advocates encourage people to ride bicycles and exercise in general to prevent obesity – but what is it like to experience an urban environment while pedaling?
The August issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine presents the negative effects of sedentary behavior on public health.
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