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1 Incorporate a mix of land uses

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Photo ©Derek Reeves

Evidence Based Strategies

  • Provide for a mix of uses in new projects, for example, residential, retail, office, recreation, and community facilities.
  • Provide retail and service uses on the ground floor to entice pedestrians.

Guy Perry

Executive Director, Buildings + Places, Asia Pacific, AECOM
Hong Kong, China
 
  • For the foreseeable future, I cannot imagine a more important factor than health in shaping our environment—seemingly obvious, yet overlooked for decades. Though people are living longer, they are leading less healthy lives.
  • Communities should help sustain people’s fitness without them even realizing it, keeping the personal trainer and the doctor as last resorts. I am determined to make human well-being-oriented planning and design the preeminent theme for how we shape our environment going forward.

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Acknowledgements

The Center for Active Design served as contributing author and expert content advisor for this project.
The project was supported by the Colorado Health Foundation, the estate of Melvin Simon, and the ULI Foundation.

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