The Active Living Partnership at Stapleton (ALPS) promotes and studies the benefits of healthy community design in Stapleton and the surrounding neighborhoods. Over the next 15 to 20 years, the cit ...

The Schuylkill River Skatepark project represents a new way of thinking about the relationship of public space to skateboarding. The project is located in downtown Philadelphia, at the terminus of ...

Community gardens provide excellent opportunities for promoting physical activity and healthy eating, as well as civic participation. Growing Gardens, a nonprofit located in Boulder, Colorado, is a ...

The focus of the Public Square Group, a Cleveland-based skateboard advocacy group, is to create sustainable public skate spaces that benefit the whole community. A small group of individuals banded ...

The Texas Bicycle Coalition (TBC) spearheaded a grassroots campaign to push the state legislature to pass, and then fund, a statewide Safe Routes to School program in 2001 funded by transportation ...

Clinton Hill neighborhood reclaims and revitalize 3.5-acre park for a safe, healthy environment for children. Mildred Helms Park, located in Newark, NJ in a predominately African-American and Latin ...

Partnership for Active Communities - Sacramento (formerly Safe Routes Sacramento) is a community driven project led by a variety of parents, public agencies, private, nonprofit and community groups ...

Three busy streets converged in the Hudson Heights neighborhood, creating an unsafe crossing for school children and no safe place for seniors to stop while crossing streets. The residents organize ...

Friendship TrailBridge spans Tampa Bay with the world's longest over-the-water recreational trail. Spared from demolition by an effective "Save the Gandy" bridge advocacy campaign, th ...

The Draw at Sugar House, a pedestrian crossing connecting Sugar House Park, Hidden Hollow and the Sugar House Business District, is an integral part of efforts to develop Parley's Creek Corrido ...