Presentation from Redevelopment and Health

1. Creating Healthy Places

2. Healthy
Places
Social
Support +
Connections
Play + Active
Recreation
Green +
Natural
Environment
Walking +
Biking
Healthy
Food +
Beverages

3. Social
Support +
Connections
• Social support and connections essential to health and well-
being
• Connected to decreased levels of stress, longer lives,
improved pregnancy outcomes

4. Placemaking projects linked to improved sense of community,
social capital, depression rates, well being

5. Greater sense of belonging linked to healthier behavior
and mental health improvements

6. Strategies that create ‘bridging’ social capital and networks are
especially powerful

7. • Physical activity reduces risk of obesity and chronic diseases
• 150 minutes of moderate-intensity activity per week recommende
for adults; 60 minutes daily for children
Play + Active
Recreation

8. Proximity matters

9. Accessibility matters

10. • Access to green space linked to reductions in anxiety,
depression, diabetes, and increases in physical activity
• Emerging evidence on sites that evoke ‘awe and wonder’
Play + Active
Recreation
Green +
Natural
Environment

11. Street trees linked to lower levels of depression, diabetes, strokes,
heart disease

12. Exposure to green space can reduce stress

13. Time in nature especially important for children

14. • Walking and biking can be an important way to incorporate
physical activity into ‘daily life’
Walking
+ Biking

15. • Access to good, affordable food is a social determinant of
health
• Unhealthy diets linked to obesity and chronic diseases
Healthy
Food +
Beverages

16. Broad benefits of farmers’ markets

17. Community gardeners consume more fruits and vegetables than
non-gardeners

21. Healthy
Places
Social
Support +
Connections
Play + Active
Recreation
Green +
Natural
Environment
Walking +
Biking
Healthy
Food +
Beverages

22. Streets as Places to Foster Active Living
 Attractions & Destinations
 Identity & Image
 Active & Connected Edge
Uses
 Amenities
 Flexibility
 Seasonal Strategy
 Create Intrigue

23. PROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACES
Attractions & Destinations
 Clustered activity points of interest
 10+ destinations – including food and markets,
local retail, art, play, education,
health/recreation

24. Espanola Way – Miami, FL
Sidewalk cafes

25. Kiosks, Carts, Other Small-scale retail
Miller Plaza – Chattanooga, TN

26. Frenchmen Street Art Market – New Orleans, LA
Street markets • Street vending

27. E 12th Street – Strand Bookstore – New York, NY
Products on the street • Indoor uses that spill outside

28. Active corners and lots

29. Identity & Image (Authenticity)
 Showcase local assets to create a distinct sense of
place
 Businesses, pedestrians and drivers raise their
behavior (conform, respect) to this vision

30. Winter Park, Florida Imageability
Slide Courtesy of Dan

31. Slide Courtesy of PPS
Littleton, NH

32. Lambertville, NJ

33. Hawthorne Square – Philadelphia, PA
Mural honoring local history and special events

34. PROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACES
Active & Connected Edge Uses
 Sense of Enclosure
 Ground Level Transparency
 Physical Connections

35. Slide Courtesy of Dan

36. Camden, Maine
Active and Connected Edges
Enclosure

37. Denver, Colorado
Active and Connected Edges
EnclosureLo
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38. Portland, Oregon
Improving parking lot edges
Active and Connected Edges
Enclosure

39. Slide Courtesy of Dan

40. Bozeman, Montana
Active and Connected Edges
Transparency

41. Brunswick, Maine
Active and Connected Edges
Transparency

42. Washington, DC
Active and Connected Edges
Physical Connections

43. JFK Boulevard – San Francisco, CA
Active and Connected Edges
Physical Connections

44. Putnam Plaza – Brooklyn, NY
Active and Connected Edges
Physical Connections
Undoing “Seas of Pavement”

45. PROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACES
Amenities
 Public and private seating options
 Triangulate to support use – cluster sidewalk elements
like benches, waste baskets, planters, lampposts,
cafes

46. Amenities
Greenery + Landscaping

47. Larimer Street – Denver, CO
Amenities - Lighting

48. Valencia Street – San Francisco, CA
Amenities
Seating and Shade

49. PROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACES
Seasonal Strategies
 Activate
throughou
t the day,
week and
year

50. David Engwicht
Create Intrigue

51. Traffic speed is largely determined by residents
psychologically retreating from the street.
Simply reversing that retreat creates mental speed bumps
in the street.
Streets and roads
are not just ways to
get places, they are
places!
Mental Speed Bumps - by David Engwicht

52. The Three Mental Speed Bumps
• Intrigue
• Uncertainty
• Humor
Mental Speed Bumps - by David Engwicht

53. Creating Intrigue
Activating blank walls

54. New Hope, Pennsylvania
Creating Intrigue
Street Sculpture

55. Hamilton, NJ
Creating Intrigue - Street Sculpture

56. Gary Toth – gtoth@pps.org