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[IslanderNews.com] Can design, policy help Key Biscayne be more active? Officials say the answer is yes.

With its small size, natural beauty and health-conscious population, Key Biscayne is an ideal place for an innovative program aimed at using design to encourage active lifestyles. Active Design Miami, a program inspired by New York City’s Active Design Guidelines, sets policy and design strategies to create healthier streets, open spaces and buildings. In Key …

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FitCity 4 Miami: Designing & Building for Health

FitCity 4: Designing & Building for Health was successfully held on February 24, 2017 at Miami-Dade College – Wolfson Campus. This year’s conference explored the opportunities for physical activity that the built environment presents in our communities. In addition, Active Design Miami: Design & Policy Strategies for Healthier Communities was officially released at the event. …

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How sharing the road makes it easier for everyone to get around

Guest Author: Patrice Gillespie Smith NEAT Streets Miami, Parks Recreation and Open Spaces Motorists sometimes assume sharing the road with other modes contributes to congestion, yet the implementation of Complete Streets across the nation has proved just the opposite.  Creating streets that move people, rather than just cars helps move all modes of transportation.  It …

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Re-thinking Public Parks as “Green Gyms” for Outdoor Exercise

Guest Author: Nancy Bruning B.A., MPH Nancercize, The Benchmark in Outdoor Fitness   “Green Gyms” are a way to encourage people to exercise outdoors. They can both help reduce our abysmally low rates of physical activity while addressing the related contemporary health problem of nature deficit disorder. Public parks are convenient, free, and appealing outdoor …

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Tree Hugging

At Active Design Miami (ADM) we love, and we mean LOVE, trees. Walk outdoors on a hot, humid South Florida day and you’ll be begging for the shade of treelined streets and sidewalks. Unfortunately, Miami-Dade’s shade percentage stands at a mere 14 percent, when a healthy urban forest should be 30 percent. This lack of …

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