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Validating a comprehensive plan scoring system for healthy community design in League City, Texas

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: Comprehensive plans provide an overall vision for a city's land use and development and influence community health conditions. As part of a community-engaged research project, a Healthy Living and Active Design Scorecard was applied to the comprehensive plan of League City, Texas, to identify health-promoting design and planning strategies. Although the plan scored similarly to published examples, several areas of improvement aligned with priorities from a community health assessment were identified, including improving public transportation and access to exercise and recreation. Future revisions of the plans and neighbourhood scaled designs targeting these issues could improve the health of the community.

Source: Journal of Urban Design

DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2019.1572453

Authors: Jennifer A. Horney, Caroline Dwyer, Bea Vendrell-Velez, Galen Newman

Institutions: University of Delaware, Texas A&M University

Language: English

Topic: Urban Transport and Accessibility

Subfield: Transportation

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: Texas A and M University, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences