Building Healthy Corridors: Transforming Urban and Suburban Arterials into Thriving Places

This guide explores strategies for transforming commercial corridors (through roads dominated by commercial premises on each side), into places that support the health of the people who live, work and travel along them. This report is the result of a 2-year project that involved partnerships with four communities in the USA that are working to improve a specific corridor in ways that positively affect health. This report serves as a resource and reference for those who are undertaking corridor redevelopment efforts. It highlights the importance of health in decision-making processes; and it provides guidance, strategies and insights for reworking corridors in health-promoting ways. Although the examples come from the USA, the principles and many lessons will be applicable in other high and middle-income countries in low-density urban contexts.
 

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Design Guide | 2016

Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: Urban Land Institute (ULI)