Community design

$33 Million Investment is Foundation’s Largest Investment in Community-Based Solutions to Prevent Childhood Obesity

This innovative and useful toolbox contains numerous techniques for public participation that communities can use to get organized, to turn their vision into a reality, and to work together to improve their parks, rivers, open spaces and special places.

This toolkit helps communities put an economic value to amenities such as rivers, trails and greenway corridors.

This article identifies eleven steps that can be taken to transform public spaces into vibrant community places.

This article explains how to design public spaces for physical activity and why doing so is important to community health.

This dynamic database is a resource for communities (their professional planners, public agencies and concerned citizens) to identify tools and processes for better community design and decision making.

The Clearinghouse provides resources relating to crime prevention through environmental design.

A collection of tools to help guide participatory planning tools.

This Guidebook will help communities implement designs for streets that are safe, efficient and aesthetically pleasing for both people and cars.

A web-based resource to assist local government officials in their efforts to protect the environment and public health. A collection of tools are designed to help users perform operations and calculations necessary to fulfill environmental reporting requirements or guide the development of a helpful environmental program.