CBoC makes case for community design's role in promoting healthy community living, wellbeing

A CBoC report contends that the design features of cities, communities and buildings can create conditions that promote and foster individual and community health and wellbeing. It explains that the design features of communities and cities can influence how people are physically active, buy healthy foods, build and maintain social relationships, bike or walk to work and participate in recreational activity. The Framework identifies five conditions that contribute to community wellbeing - social, environmental, economic, political and cultural - and includes key indicators and metrics to help design professionals assess a project's contribution to community wellbeing.