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Therapeutic Landscapes Network at http://www.healinglandscapes.org/
Garden landscape (Photo by Ann Forsyth) Focusing on gardens and other landscapes, with a particular emphasis on gardens in healthcare settings, the web site of the Therapeutic Landscapes Network is a...
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Free Articles on Health and Environments
For those not at universities, finding research on the connections between health and places can be a bit tricky. However, a growing number of online resources are meeting these needs. The entry below...
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Technical Resource 2: InformeDesign
InformeDesign (http://www.informedesign.org/) is an online database of research on people and environments. With substantial funding from the American Society of Interior Designers, and based in the...
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Is There a Role for Evidence-Based Practice in Urban Planning and Policy?
Integrating health into planning often uses the approach called evidence-based practice. An article on this topic by some of the folks from Design for Health, including me, is currently available for...
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Mapping Health Issues with GIS: Participatory Approaches
Participatory GIS is a growing field. For those interested in integrating participatory GIS into healthy planning, several web sites provide helpful illustrations of the potential. Public Participatory...
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Research: High Density and Overweight Adolescents
I typically don’t report on scholarly studies in this blog but recently came across a nicely designed study that makes a larger point—that the links between health and place are complex. Fei Xu,...
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Visuals: What Does a Rapid HIA Look Like?
This blog has dealt earlier with the logistics of doing an HIA but what does a workshop look like? One source is the Arden Hills Healthy City Planning Workshop Summary Report Appendices. This document...
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Planning for Healthy Places with Health Impact Assessments
A screenshot of the online slide show A few years back the American Planning Association in association with the National Association of County and City Health Officials created the online course...
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For practitioners interested in integrating health research into planning and design, the task can be daunting. There are many articles that touch on the topic of the connection between people, health,...
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Collections of Tools for Measuring Active Transport
With growing interest in active transport practitioners and researchers have created a large number of tools to measure active transport behavior and environments. The following web sites provide lists...
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