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 ...

On October 28, 2005, more than 100 volunteers joined the Trust for Public Land (TPL) to help rebuild El Club del Barrio Peace Playground in Newark, New Jersey. Volunteers assembled and installed pl ...

Officials and residents hoping to make their communities safer for walking and biking often need to study existing streets and neighborhoods to understand what to change. The Walkability and Bikabi ...

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 Marshfield Clinic is a private consortium of several hundred physicians spread throughout Wisconsin, and is based in the town of Marshfield. Alarmed by the growing incidence of obesity-related ...

South Bronx Greenway will provide open space and recreational access to the waterfront for this underserved, low income, and multicultural community (largely Latino and African American). The proje ...

Clay County, a small rural community of 9,300 residents located on the western border of North Carolina near Georgia, lacked a community park or playground. With three schools on one campus, a team ...

Transforming unused lots into community gardens and creating pockets of green open space in the midst of inner-city communities has been the work of Gardens for Growing Healthy Communities. This di ...

The search for the "Golden Shoes" has the Cambridge, Massachusetts, community walking for health, viewing public art and learning about Cambridge history. Cambridge Walks is a citywide ca ...

The PedNet Coalition, along with the City of Columbia, the University of Missouri and Columbia Public Schools, and many other partners have teamed up to create "Bike, Walk, Wheel: A Way of Lif ...