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Active Design Guidelines

By Kara Pecknold - January 30, 2010

in design.edu

If you appreciated the Street Design Manual, then you'll likely value the information included in The Active Design Guidelines. This free resource offers "strategies for creating healthier buildings, streets and urban spaces, based on the latest academic research and best practices in the field." If the 19th and early 20th centuries were focused on cholera and tuberculosis, the 21st century is focused on obesity (and its related diseases). The guide offers a framework for urban and building design strategies that will promote physical activity and health. While targeted to architects and urban designers in New York, the entire design community will benefit from the research included in this document.

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i'd love for you all to conduct an interview, if not a twitterview on where the need for this derived, how were the guidelines decided upon (a la manifesto) and how something like this can become a reoccurring workshop or event series that gathers some of the young (hearted) designThinkers and urban innovators from around the world.
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