Models for change: Lessons for creating active living communities

Reference

Cervero, R. (2007, Feb). Models for change: Lessons for creating active living communities. Planning Magazine, ppA1.

As we know, physical inactivity threatens our heath. The strategy to maintain health is what we called “active living”. This article is talking about the tasks to create active living communities, and what is ALR program doing for the topic, especially case studies, which focus on processes of policy changing, and policy innovations. Collaboration between related departments, and to put the thought of public-health into plans in the beginning are most important key points. However, it’s easy to write in words; stakeholders or researchers should understand it’s difficult to realize or to achieve rapidly and to learn the way to work together.

Creating active communities has increased recently to promote physical activity. Through the case studies, we might be able to reveal the policy processes and understanding the problems of this issue, but how to deal with the whole thing and how to collaborate are hard between different departments. Health issues are not a part of designing communities permanently, and stakeholders or staffers in diverse fields haven’t worked together very many times. I agree with the idea to create active communities for all that, it’s hard to overcome. For example, to make a good communication or a deal takes a very long time, and some troubles will happen during that time, which would be the toughest part. In my opinion, except for what this article mentioned, a perfect leader who can have the abilities of integrating and making decisions is the first key point to create active communities.

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by Corina