June 8, 2009
Design for Health (DFH), a collaborative project between Cornell University, University of Minnesota, and University of Colorado, recently received a 2009 Great Places research award in a competition cosponsored by the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), Places, and Metropolis. Cornell city and regional planning professor Ann Forsyth has been the principal investigator on the project.
The project's goal was to bridge the gap between urban design, healthy living, and local government planning. The DFH team, composed of experts in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and public health, created a variety of innovative, practice-oriented tools to integrate health research into the practice of urban planning and environmental design.
The award was presented in late May. The project has also received the National Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice from the American Planning Association.
