Healthy community design

Healthy community design is planning and designing communities that make it easier for people to live healthy lives. Healthy community design offers important benefits:

  • Decreases dependence on the automobile by building homes, businesses, schools, churches and parks closer to each other so that people can more easily walk or bike between them.
  • Provides opportunities for people to be physically active and socially engaged as part of their daily routine, improving the physical and mental health of its citizens.
  • Allows persons, if they choose, to age in place and remain all their lives in a community that reflects their changing lifestyles and changing physical capabilities.
For the healthy community design outside North America, see Active design.
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