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Nutrition Policy Profiles

Published by the Center for Health Improvement's Health Policy Coach as part of a collection of prevention-focused policies, these profiles offer policy recommendations and model practices related to improving nutrition and health.
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Improving Conditions for Bicycling and Walking

This best practices report provides information on some outstanding pedestrian and bicycle projects that have been recognized for increasing walking and bicycling and improving user safety in communities across the United States.
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Designing Sidewalks and Trails for Access

This two-part report on pedestrian accessibility was produced for Federal Highway Administration by Beneficial Designs, Inc. Part 1, Review of Existing Guidelines and Practices, lays out the history and the practices of applying accessibility concepts to sidewalks and pedestrian trails. Part 2, Best Practices Design Guide, provides recommendations on how to design sidewalks, street crossings, intersections, shared use paths, and recreational pedestrian trails.
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Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community

Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community provides readers with an understanding of the connections between smart growth and density; highlights the success of nine community-led efforts to create vibrant compact neighborhoods; and introduces five time tested design principles to ensure that density becomes a community asset and not a liability.
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What's Cooking in your Food System? A Guide to Community Food Assessment

This book informs the reader about Community Food Assessments, a creative way to highlight food-related resources and needs, promote collaboration and community participation, and create lasting change.
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Safer Places: The Planning System and Crime Prevention

Safety and security are important attributes for successful, sustainable communities. Not only are such places attractive to live and work in, but they are also places that are free from fear and crime and often result in an improved quality of life. However, very little attention by planners and designers has been focused on crime issues. This document highlights the need to consider crime prevention as part of the design process and offers suggestions that aim to deliver safer places.
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The Healthy Lifestyles Marshfield Area Coalition

To enhance community efforts to promote and deliver effective initiatives for healthy living.
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Smart Growth Policy Database

This database highlights numerous policies and programs that states and localities nationwide have implemented to further smart growth.
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Measuring Up: The Trend Toward Voter Approved Transportation Funding

This report by the Surface Transportation Policy Project finds that voters across the country are increasingly being asked to approve new funding measures for transportation at the polls. It places these ballot measures in the broader context of transportation finance, and sets forth five criteria to help voters and policy-makers evaluate pending and future ballot measures through an in-depth review provided by five case studies. The report makes a series of recommendations for improving transportation finance.
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