Community Design | Walkability and Connectivity Resources
Walkability Resources for Community Design
These resources outline how to assess the quality of walking environments for community members to smoothly travel through your community.
Publication | Walkability and Connectivity: Enhancing the Pedestrian Travel Environment for Healthier Communities
This publication explains the concepts of walkability and connectivity as they relate to travel through a community. Increasing walkability and connectivity can provide healthier user experiences and increased community wellness.
Learn MoreActivity Guide | Community Collage
This activity is intended to get youth thinking about ways they can be actively involved in transforming their community. Students will participate in a photo-walking tour, complete a think sheet, and create a collage.
Learn MorePublication | Walkability and Connectivity: Assessing and Planning for Healthier Community Environments
This document illustrates how a trained volunteers in a community can identify, assess, and develop actionable plans relevant for their community’s needs and visions, not limited to improving the health and wellness of its residents.
Learn MoreActivity Guide | Radical Walking Toolkit
Radical Walking is an engagement process for recapturing our understanding of everyday spaces through slow walking and examining surroundings. This toolkit provides an example of guiding questions, activities and a survey questionnaire that can be utilized to help participants observe, interpret, and voice their ideas for vibrant communities in more creative and holistic ways.
Learn MoreActivity Guide | Where Your Sidewalk Begins
This activity encourages students to consider their neighborhood and what elements make them feel safe or welcome. They will read a poem, discuss its meaning, complete a worksheet, and reimagine their own place "where the sidewalk ends."
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