Healthy Places

Healthy Community Design

Healthy Community Design Streaming Video

Dr. Howard Frumkin, discusses the benefits of walkable communities as they relate to health, the environment, and social interaction.

Streaming Video (15:46)

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Additional Resources

Healthy Community Design Fact Sheet
This fact sheet is an overview of Dr. Frumkin's Healthy Community Design discussion.
English Version [PDF - 345 KB]
En Español [PDF - 347 KB]

LEED-ND and Healthy Neighborhoods [PDF - 282 KB]
This fact sheet explains the possible health benefits of LEED-ND certified neighborhoods.

Walkable Communities Podcast
This podcast discusses the benefits of walkable communities, as they relate to health, the environment, and social interaction.

Planning Information Sheet: Integrating Health into Comprehensive Planning [PDF - 1.1 MB]
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Design for Health; 2007.
This first sheet in the series helps communities begin thinking about how to integrate health into their planning and design decisions. The sheet showcases: Background information on the relationship between health and the built environment; various approaches to integrate health into comprehensive planning; examples from the Twin Cities region and across the U.S.related to integrating health and planning; and opportunities to integrate health into a traditional comprehensive plan framework.

Healthy Community Checklist [PDF - 172 KB]
The checklist, created by the Michigan Department of Community Health, is a 40-item questionnaire that provides a quick assessment of a community's health environment with regard to promoting physical activity; healthy eating and healthy weight; and smoke-free environments and tobacco-free lifestyles.