In 2014, the New York Community Trust (NYCT) invested in three South Bronx neighborhoods to help them become healthier places to live. The Healthy and Livable South Bronx initiative was […]
Highlights from the 2019 Untokening gathering in Durham, NC
Laying the Foundations for Equitable and Sustainable Communities
Highlights from the 2019 National Recreation and Park Association Annual Conference
Youth share their perspective of their own communities through Photovoice
How air quality impacts community health, and how we can improve it
As Healthy Places by Design’s Sarah Moore reflected in her August 15 blog, education is a social determinant of health and one of the strongest indicators of life expectancy. So […]
Aetna Foundation Grantees Use Virtual Connections for Self-Sustained Learning
A personal reflection on the relationship between education and place.
It’s hard to write about the health benefits of parks with any sincerity while processing two more mass shootings, and the fact that one of them was motivated by white nationalism. Right now, there are a lot of people carrying trauma that no park can heal. That being said, it is still important to address inequitable park access, because it is yet another symptom of our country’s bigger problem: racism.