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Salutogenic Design
Published in Debra Flanders Cushing, Evonne Miller, Creating Great Places, 2019
Debra Flanders Cushing, Evonne Miller
On the other hand, New York City’s Fit City initiative and associated annual conference is a good example of transdisciplinary collaborations to foster health and wellbeing. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Department of Design and Construction, Department of Transportation, and Department of City Planning combined efforts to produce evidenced-based Active Design Guidelines (Center for Active Design, 2010) for creating environments conducive to physical activity, complementing efforts to address sustainability and universal accessibility (Lee, 2012). In dense urban areas like New York City, walking, cycling and other active modes of travel are a critical component of an active lifestyle and equally critical for people to get exercise during their busy days. To accommodate active travel within the urban realm, the Guidelines reference the five ‘D’ variables of density, diversity, design, destination accessibility and distance to transit. Too many cities do the opposite and present barriers to active travel with: a lack of sidewalks, crosswalks, and bikeways; a lack of connectivity of pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure; actual and perceived dangers of walking and cycling; and a poor supply of public transportation (Buehler et al., 2016). We must, in our return brief to clients, explicitly require active and enjoyable transportation modes – and ground our arguments in evidence-based practice and design theory.
Other Sources of Inspiration
Published in Traci Rose Rider, Margaret van Bakergem, Building for Well-Being, 2021
Traci Rose Rider, Margaret van Bakergem
Focusing on encouraging physical activity in the built environment, the Active Design Guidelines identifies design strategies for urban planning and the building scales and outlines how these strategies may overlap with other initiatives like LEED®. Housed with the Center for Active Design, and sibling to Fitwel®, the Active Design Guidelines are just that – two simple checklists that design teams can use to encourage activity in their spaces and communities.
Financing sustainable buildings
Published in Stephen Finnegan, New Financial Strategies for Sustainable Buildings, 2017
Active design involves the use of for example: Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems to actively control internal temperatures; artificial lighting in buildings where natural light cannot penetrate or is insufficient; controls such as Building Management Systems (BMS) and more advanced Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS). The principal role of which is to regulate and monitor HVAC and lighting control.
Designing activity-based workspaces: satisfaction, productivity and physical activity
Published in Building Research & Information, 2019
Christhina Candido, Leena Thomas, Shamila Haddad, Fan Zhang, Martin Mackey, Wei Ye
Active design features have the potential to promote health and increase incidental physical activities opportunities (Engelen et al., 2018). The results of post-relocation suggest that the ABW configuration may have some positive impacts on a worker’s overall step count and reduced occupational seating. The data reported here refer to measurements per working day. Figure 12 shows box plots of the daily step count and walking distance results before and after relocation to ABW environment. A comparison of the results shows that 50th and 75th percentiles of the data are very similar in the two office layouts, with the ABW being slightly higher in than the combi office layout. After relocation to the ABW workspace, occupants were slightly more active than before, increasing their maximum walking distance by 0.3 km/day. However, their daily average walking distance remains similar. Box plots of daily step count data reveal a slight increase of the maximum and average step counts by about 300 and 200 steps/day in the ABW workspace respectively.
Towards a movement-friendly city: lessons from activity scans of five neighbourhoods in Antwerp, Belgium
Published in Journal of Urban Design, 2023
Tim Devos, Maarten Van Acker, Jakob Vandevoorde, Stijn Rybels
Despite the need for hands-on insights, it remains challenging to develop and implement design-oriented guidelines that specify what characteristics public spaces need to stimulate physical activity (Koohsari, Badland, and Giles-Corti 2013). Nevertheless, we have seen some promising contributions. The influential ‘Active Design Guidelines’, for instance, provides best practices on stimulating physical activity in the design of neighbourhoods, streets and buildings (City of New York 2010). At the same time, debates on reappropriating public space for cyclists and pedestrians have intensified, triggering the development of practical insights and spatial tactics (Gössling 2020), while the growing body of research on ‘walkability’ aims to quantify pedestrian friendliness in relation to environmental factors (Shields et al. 2021). Moreover, a strand of interdisciplinary research is emerging connecting urban design, transport and health. One such example is a series of articles published in the Lancet on the health impacts of city planning in relation to transport mode choices (Goenka and Anderson 2016). The series also covered integrated approaches to encourage walking, cycling and public transport use to encourage healthy lifestyle choices (Giles-Corti et al. 2016). A common element in these studies is the emphasis on enhancing the desirability of active travel modes (Giles-Corti et al. 2016). This is also reflected in several recent EU-funded projects – such as the PASTA project (Physical Activity Through Sustainable Transport Approaches) – that aim to promote active mobility in urban contexts as an innovative way of integrating physical activity into our day-to-day lives (Gascon et al. 2019).
Validating a comprehensive plan scoring system for healthy community design in League City, Texas
Published in Journal of Urban Design, 2020
Jennifer A. Horney, Caroline Dwyer, Bea Vendrell-Velez, Galen Newman
A potential application of the Healthy Living and Active Design Scorecard is the capability to integrate analytical findings from both larger-scaled planning policies and community-scaled design strategies. This separates the instrument from many other existing tools; however, the tool’s integration capabilities have not yet been assessed in the literature. This project sought to determine if the Healthy Living and Active Design Scorecard could be effectively used to evaluate the inclusion of important public health elements using urban planning and design concepts, including (1) vision and strategy, (2) healthy living and (3) active design.