Shaping Active, Healthy Communities: Built Environment Toolkit for Change

Offers examples of active transportation plans and design checklists. – Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

What is the Canadian Evidence Saying? Planning Healthy Communities Fact Sheet No. 1

Succinct fact sheet based on a review of recent evidence in Canada. – Canadian Institute of Planners

Active Transportation in Canada – A Resource and Planning Guide

Provides examples of community processes and current practice and advice about active transportation planning for a transportation planner audience. – Transport Canada (Environmental Initiatives Group)

Built Environment

Offers readiness assessment tools, fact sheets, and case studies. – National Collaborating Centre on Environmental Health

Urban Public Health Network

Provides healthy community design resources and links that have been developed through the Coalitions Linking Action and Science for Prevention (CLASP) initiative. – Healthy Canada by Design

Healthy Built Environment

A suite of resources to link health and planning practitioners’ practices toward healthier communities. – BC Provincial Health Services Authority

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

Provides links to research, healthy physical activity guidelines, and healthy community design information.

Active Transportation Plans

Developed by local governments under the Built Environment and Active Transportation (BEAT) program. (program currently closed)

BC Ministry of Health: Age Friendly Communities information

Healthy Community Design Policy for Official Plans

Provides model healthy policy language and themes developed by health units for community plans. – Simcoe Muskoka Health