Community Design - Resources and Tools

Please find a list of toolkits, programs and resources, and organizations and networks below.

Toolkits

• Active Community Toolkit for Reviewing Development Plans (2013) (PDF)
• Building Healthy Places Toolkit (2015) (PDF)
• Citizen's Guide to Land-use Planning
• Healthy Built Environment Linkages: A Toolkit for Design, Planning, Health (2018) (PDF)
• Healthy Community Design Policy for Official Plans. Simcoe Muskoka
• Healthy Peel by Design - Tools and Research
• Healthy Rural Communities Tool Kit: A Guide for Rural Municipalities (2015)
• International Toronto Charter for Physical Activity (TCPA) Toolkit (2015) (PDF)
• Linking Health & the Built Environment in Rural Settings (2013) (PDF)
• Planning by Design: a healthy communities handbook (2009)
• Planning and Health Resource Guide for Designing and Building Healthy Neighborhoods
• Toronto Complete Streets Guidelines (2017) (PDF)
• London Complete Streets Design Manual (PDF)

Programs and Resources

• Active City: Designing for Health (2014) (PDF)
• Active Design: Planning for health and wellbeing through sport and physical activity (2015)
• Active Transportation in Canada: A resource and planning guide (2011) (PDF)
• Canadian Automobile Association (CAA). Bike Safety
• Give Active Transportation a GO! Campaign (PDF)
• Healthy City Active London (2012) (PDF)
• Healthy Communities Fact Sheets
• Healthy Communities Practice Guide (2010)
• Healthy Peel by Design - Built Environment: Healthy Development Index and Health Background Study Framework (PDF)
• Healthy Places
• Healthy Toronto by Design (2011)
• Interventions for Healthy Eating and Active Urban Living (2016)
• Measuring the Age-Friendliness of Cities (2015)
• Middlesex-London Community Food Assessment (2016) (PDF)
• Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA). (2016). Public Health and Planning 101
• Pathways to Recreation Learning about Ontario's Accessibility Standard for Design of Public Spaces (2014)
• Road to Health: Improving Walking and Cycling in Toronto (2012)
• Ten Principles for Building Healthy Places (2013), Urban Design Institute (PDF)
• Walk Score ®

Organizations and Networks

• 8 80 Cities
• Active Transportation Canada
• Age Friendly London
• Canada Walks
• Canadian Institute of Planners
• Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
• Ecohealth Ontario
• Ontario Professional Planners Institute
• Smart Growth Ontario
• Toronto Centre for Active Transportation
• Urban Land Institute