Project for Public Spaces [PPS] is offering a transportation and placemaking training course for professionals, elected officials and citizen activists. From a walking tour of recent New York City ...

A common response to conversations about obesity is to assign blame and chide individuals to exercise more and eat less. But in New Hampshire, a unique collaboration of foundations and state agenci...

In a near-unanimous special session vote in Illinois, the state congress overrode Gov. Rod Blagojevich's veto and passed a statewide complete streets law. Effective immediately, the law requires th...

Smart Growth America, in conjunction with National Association of Realtors, released its 2007 Growth and Transportation Survey detailing how Americans view development and its effects in their comm...

Ranking the most physically inactive cities through a provocative feature, "America's Most Sedentary Cities," Forbes magazine shines a spotlight on the environmental characteristics that h...

The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities commissioned this "translation paper" to illustrate the connection between better decisions about growth and development and improved ...

This article from The Journal of Physical Activity and Health reviewed policy and environmental inventions to
increase physical activity using methods from the Task Force on Community Prevent...

In acknowledgement of Walk to School events happening throughout the month of October, the New York Times laments the national decline in the number of students who walk or bike to school....