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er viable sidewalks and crosswalks
enable ready access to play space,
would do much to advance the vision
of a more active country. " There are
a number of different pilot programs
out there that could really benefit
[from increased information about
existing park space], " says Arthur
Wendel of the CDC's Healthy Community Design Initiative, National
Center for Environmental Health.
" One is called park prescriptions,
where a physician might say his patient would benefit from using a park
or being more physical. That patient
would get a prescription to go out and
use a park, but that clinical encounter requires geospatial knowledge of
where that person lives and if there
are parks around. Without being able
to identify that information, the program won't work as well. So I think
there is a direct benefit of having that
additional data. "

Planning and Prioritizing
While planners wait patiently for
burgeoning databases like PRORAGIS to increase datasets, they still
must go about the work of planning
new towns and improving rundown
areas. Both scenarios present options
for increasing recreational spaces
with an eye on both physical activity
and overall wellness. " At a high level,
communities establish comprehensive plans, park systems help identify
where parks are needed, and cities or
neighborhoods set parameters for development, which may have an influence on how parks are established, "
Wendel says. " Another access issue is
how communities determine whether
there's a need for a park. Some establish park goals as a ratio - like park
acres to population. The challenge
is while this can be good for a static
measurement in time, perhaps when
a town's population is small and not

KaBOOM! has been working on the Map
of Play, a play desert mapping initiative,
and is collaborating with cities like Pittsburgh to identify and direct resources to
play deserts.

growing and land is cheap, it may not
incentivize acquisition of land until
there are more people and the land
becomes more expensive. So, not
only is land acquisition important,
but access and how it's distributed
are important as well. "
Wendel points to a 2007 Trust for
Public Land study, which found that
although the ratio of park land to
New York City residents was relatively low - the study identified 4.6 acres
of park land for every 1,000 residents
- some 91 percent of the city's children lived within a quarter-mile of a
park. By contrast, the ratio of park
land to Los Angeles residents is 6.2
acres per 1,000 people, but only 33
percent of those live within a quar-

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