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Healthy Urban Design -- UMD Presentation

Healthy Urban Design: Maryland’s Smart Codes and the Pedestrian Environment examines Maryland’s Smart Codes, a state initiative that encourages local communities to adopt principles of Smart Growth. This set of programs provides assistance, financial and informational, to revise or adopt development regulations consistent with these principles.

Focusing on the utility of this initiative, in theory and practice, to change the pedestrian environment in Maryland, the paper examines the efforts of three communities that participated in the Smart Codes initiative and the potential for these codes to transform the walkability of neighborhoods and town centers.

24 pages; available online as a PDF document at the resource link below.

Resource: http://www.smartgrowth.umd.edu/ConferencePapers/Clifton_Health%20Urban%20Design.pdf


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