DOI: 10.22217/upi.2017.332
Design Guidelines for Active Living: Western Experience

Sun Peijin, Lu Wei, Liu lianlian

Keywords: Active Living; Healthy City; Design Guidelines; Urban Design; Western Experience

Abstract:

Active living is a way of life that integrates physical activity into daily routines. Physical inactivity is a primary cause of most chronic diseases since the twentieth century. History has shown that environmental design can play a crucial role in improving public health. Planning and design guidelines have become an increasingly common approach for promoting physical activity. This paper aims to analyze comparatively various guidelines proposed by different institutions and designed for different groups by summarizing more than 30 current design guidelines in western countries. This paper also explores urban design suggestions for Chinese cities through practical cases study, with the hope of providing a practical basis for healthy city design.

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