Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

How your community is designed impacts your ability to lead a healthy lifestyle.

Blatchford will promote healthy lifestyles by:

• Creating walkways and bikeways for use in all seasons
• Fully integrating public transit into the community
• Locating work, education and amenities like shopping and healthcare with walking distance from homes
• Building a major park in the middle of the development to bring people together and create a strong sense of community
• Offering trails and paths connecting different areas and connecting the development to other parts of the city
• Creating attractive places for people to walk, relax and play
• Designing spaces to create a safe ‘eyes on the street’ community where people feel comfortable and secure in their community

"A community where walking is easier than driving and where people of all ages can enjoy the outdoors promotes wellness and makes for a healthier population."

Dr. Gerry Predy
Senior Medical Officer of Health
Population and Public Health,
Alberta Health Services

 

 

For More Information

Blatchford Project Office

Email	blatchford@edmonton.ca