Built Environment

"Seven Cs is an informational guide for early childhood educators, designers, administrators,
and parents.The goal of Seven Cs is to help people design outdoor play spaces that
support the development of young children and integrate the unique qualities of playing
outdoors."

This study examined relationships between greeness, exposure and free-living physical activity behaviour of children in smart growth and conventionally designed communities.

This report, a product of the social and civic infrastructure research stream, synthesizes academic behaviour change literature with the pragmatic application of cycling programs to present an adaptable, evidenced-based guide to the development of a "toolkit" to accelerate the adoption of cycling for transportation.

It explores the social infrastructure supporting cycling for transportation, introducing a new "toolkit" as an evidence-based method for cycling adoption. This model, suited to adaptation to accommodate local contexts, can foster substantial change in cycle use among diverse target groups, with different partners delivering the program, and diverse related barriers to cycling adoption. Based on a comprehensive review of scholarly literature and practitioner-based sources, this innovative toolkit provides an original, evidence-based analysis of the barriers and opportunities where cycling behaviour interventions and behaviour change theory intersect.

"This InfoSheet discusses the benefits of connecting children to nature and presents examples
of simple ways to naturalize outdoor learning environments in childcare centers."

This report shows how investing in cycling is good for our transport systems as a whole, for local economies, for social inclusion, and for public health. Eleven benefits are summarized in the report which can help solve a series of health, social and economic problems.

Urban Land Institutes Building Healthy Places Toolkit: Strategies for Enhancing Health in the Built Environment outlines evidence-supported opportunities for enhancing health outcomes in real estate developments.

Developers, owners, property managers, designers, investors, and others involved in real estate decision making can use the report's recommendations and strategies to create places that contribute to healthier people and communities, and to enhance and preserve value by meeting growing desires for health-promoting places

This web resource contains over 200 articles, reports, case-studies, and other publications relating to the built environment. It contains a searchable interface that allows interested parties to filter by the type of publication, as well as the population of interest (children & youth, general population, seniors, and vulnerable populations). The most recent update was completed in October 2012.