ABOUT THE TOOLKIT

The Building Healthy Places Toolkit outlines opportunities to enhance health through changes in approaches to buildings and projects. Developers, owners, property managers, designers, investors, and others involved in real estate decision making can use these strategies and tactics to create places that contribute to healthier people and communities and to enhance and preserve value.

The Toolkit provides 21 evidence-based recommendations that are supported by action-oriented evidence-based and best practice strategies. The report also includes seven schematics that illustrate how the recommendations can be applied across real estate product sectors.

1.Incorporate a mix of land uses

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2.Design well-connected street networks at the human scale

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3.Provide sidewalks and enticing, pedestrian oriented streetscapes

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4.Provide infrastructure to support biking

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5.Design visible, enticing stairs to encourage everyday use

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6.Install stair prompts and signage

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7.Provide high-quality spaces for multigenerational play and recreation

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8.Build play spaces for children

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9.Accommodate a grocery store

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10.Host a farmers market

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11.Promote healthy food retail

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12.Support on-site gardening and farming

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13.Enhance access to drinking water

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14.Ban smoking

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15.Use materials and products that support healthy indoor air quality

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16.Facilitate proper ventilation and airflow

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17.Maximize indoor lighting quality

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18.Minimize noise pollution

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19.Increase access to nature

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20.Facilitate social engagement

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21.Adopt pet-friendly policies

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Applying the Recommendations

These schematics illustrate how the 21 recommendations might be applied in a variety of real estate typologies and sectors. (Renderings by Mark Patrizio)

Schematic

Additional recommendations apply but are not shown. View full report for details.

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The report outlines 21 recommendations for promoting health at the building or project scale.

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