Healthy Active by Design (HABD), an online apparatus and
criterion for health unwavering design, responds to Australia’s documented
obesity problem by construction ingenuities.
Developed by a Heart Foundation in Western Australia, in
collaboration with supervision agencies and construction industry
representatives Hassell and Aurecon, HABD was determined to support urban
designers and planners in formulating safe, permitted transformation networks and
healthy open places for a community.
The Heart Foundation says a commencement draws impulse from a a 2010
World Health Organisation (WHO) report, ‘Global standing news on non-communicable
diseases’, that identified a need for preference makers to undertake
interventions to residence a superiority of ongoing diseases in a communities.
One of those interventions listed was conceptualizing a built sourroundings to
promote earthy activity’.
The HABD apparatus was grown with a Western Australian
Government, and an index of their try to residence a WHO recommendations.
The apparatus is delivered online and offers unsentimental guidance
and checklists for city planners, civic designers and architects centering on
nine pattern features:
Public open space
Goal: Provide a good distributed network of open open spaces within the
neighbourhood that yield for a accumulation of recreational, sporting and social
needs of a community.
Buildings
Goal: Develop buildings and site designs that privately support increased
levels of earthy activity by pattern that promotes immaterial physical
activity, such as step use, sustenance of finish outing facilities, convenient
access to open ride options, and healthy notice of the
streetscape.
Town centres/main streets
Goal: Provide for a needs of a village by a sustenance of walkable
neighbourhoods and city centres that act as village focal points or hubs.
These should be surrounded by a network of connected streets, paths and cycle
ways, integrated with open ride and within tighten vicinity of a variety
of residential home types.
Schools
Goal: Provide schools within walkable vicinity and safeguard that routes to
school promote children’s active ride to propagandize by footpaths,
cycling infrastructure and open transport. Provide a operation of village sport
and recreational comforts for after propagandize hours access.
Movement networks
Goal: Provide transformation networks that confederate walking, cycling and public
transport routes for protected and available travel, and maximize opportunities to
engage in earthy activity.
Mixed use
Goal: Create compress mixed-use neighbourhoods with a different brew of employment,
education, retail, uninformed and healthy food outlets and distraction land uses.
Housing diversity
Goal: Provide a operation of residential lot sizes and choice of housing products
and tenures to promote housing diversity. Increased residencies in close
proximity to support mixed-use centres, internal employment, village facilities
and open transport.
Sense of place
Goal: To yield walkable environments that raise clarity of village and
social collateral by enlivening and facilitating amicable ties or community
connections by opportunities for residents to meet, correlate and rivet in
their neighbourhood.
Shared Facilities
Goal: Develop integrated village and distraction comforts to enhance
opportunities for sports participation, earthy activities and encouragement of
wellbeing and village interactions.
These facilities were shortlisted by a Heart Foundation, who
suggests that if practical faithfully, a certain change on open health can
be achieved. Robina Crook from Hassell collaborated on a plan and believes
the apparatus will inspire preference makers in all forms to consider about
incorporating a right civic forms.
“By enlivening walking, cycling, open ride use and even elementary things
such as holding a stairs or walking by an appealing park to get to the
shops instead of driving, a right civic forms can minister to formulating a
healthier, some-more active population,” she says.
“On a unequivocally simple level, a city formulation tyro can use a references
to beam them by their investigate papers. A village member who is
interested in ancillary increasing walking in their village can also drop into
the tool.
“At a some-more veteran turn there’s a 23-page
checklist for city planners. And during a commencement phases of their projects
designers and planners can use this apparatus to assistance their clients know the
merits of an integrated transformation network, and how it links to community
amenities and destinations.
“People can afterwards accumulate support for new developments
under a grounds of wellness and health. And, in fact, we’ve indeed started
already doing that with a clients,” Crook says.
The HABD plan will be implemented as partial of an ongoing
program from a Heart Foundation to emanate environments that support healthy
and active living.
The Foundation says a apparatus will be upheld by an
implementation strategy, that will embody unchanging communication, information
sharing opportunities, networks, and partnership building and interactive
training opportunities.
Visit healthyactivebydesign.com.au
for some-more information and to hearing a tool.