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Planning for walking PQ196 March 2015

Submitted by ellen.blake on Mon, 30/03/2015 - 00:36

The attached is an article recently published in Planning Quarterly 196 March 2015 (without it's nice photos sorry) on Planning for walking - time to make strides in measuring performance. The article sets out and proposes a new approach to measuring walk performance in local authority plans to enable a more rapid change to walk mode share and improve walkability, by making walking more visible.

Region (NZ): 
National level
Topics: 
Walkability
Free tags: 
goals
funding
barriers
walkability
accessibility
Planning
performance measures
measurement
motivations

Activity friendly environments - complete resources (SPARC)

Submitted by administrator on Thu, 24/08/2006 - 21:29
Activity friendly environments - complete resources (SPARC) - PDF document
This Activity Friendly Environment resource relates to daily life physical activity, whilst acknowledging that discretionary physical activity is just as important.
Author(s):
Topics: 
Activities
Institution: 
Government Department
SPARC
Free tags: 
strategy
barriers
Taxonomy upgrade extras: 
--5.01 NZ Government programmes
-5 Activities

Survey sets out to discover barriers to active lifestyles (North Shore)

Submitted by administrator on Sun, 06/08/2006 - 21:47
survey_discover_barriers_active_lifestyles.htm - Web page
This media release publicises research aimed at discovering how to encourage more North Shore City residents to lead active lives, with a telephone survey and on-site interviews at a range of city facilities.
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Document Type: 
News items
City/Town: 
North Shore
Institution: 
Local government
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media item
barriers

Walking maps tool box minor literature review

Submitted by administrator on Tue, 13/06/2006 - 00:28
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A small literature review on providing people information in the form of a map to help reduce barriers to walking
Author(s):
Health Sponsorship Council
Publisher
Country (exc. NZ): 
Overseas (other)
Topics: 
Marketing
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barriers
toolkit
Taxonomy upgrade extras: 
--4.03 Behaviour change marketing methodologies - overseas
-4 Marketing

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