External Resources Directory

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By planning, designing, and constructing Complete Streets, communities of all sizes – whether rural hamlets, small towns, or booming metropolises – are able to provide the quality access to jobs, health care, shops, and schools their residents deserve, while also achieving greater economic, environmental, and public health benefits. A Complete Streets approach can provide a more effective and balanced transportation system for the nearly 49 million Americans who live in rural areas and small towns.

CDC’s Best Practices for ComprehensiveTobacco Control Programs—2014 is an evidence basedguide to help states plan and establishcomprehensive tobacco control programs. Thisedition updates Best Practices for ComprehensiveTobacco Control Programs—2007. The 2014edition describes an integrated programmaticstructure for implementing interventions provento be effective and provides the recommendedlevel of state investment to reach these goalsand to reduce tobacco use in each state.

Around the world, communities face pressing health challenges related to the built environment. For many years, ULI and its members have been active players in discussions and projects that make the link between human health and development; we know that health is a core component of thriving communities.The ULI Building Healthy Places Initiative is building on that work with a multifaceted program—including research and publications, convenings, and advisory activities—to leverage the power of the Institute’s global networks to shape projects and places in ways that improve the health of people and communities.Through the Building Healthy Places Initiative, which launched in July 2013, ULI is working to promote health across the globe.

Building Healthy Places Toolkit Strategies for Enhancing Health in the Built Environment outlines evidence-supported 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 the strategies described in this report to create places that contribute to healthier people and communities and that enhance and preserve value by meeting the growing desire for health promoting places.