Joanna Frank, president and CEO of the Center for Active Design (CfAD), has never worked harder. Her nonprofit, dedicated to making buildings healthier, was launched at the end of the Bloomberg ...

New York—A new affordable housing development at Prospect Plaza in Brooklyn is the first to bear a new classification known as “Active Design Verified” (ADV). To be ADV, a project’s developers must ...

Active Design Advisors Inc. (Adai) has secured a strategic capital investment led by real estate technology fund RET Ventures with additional investment from Kilroy Realty, Commercial Observer can ...

A yearlong study finds that most employees would probably benefit from having the option to stand at work. Science Is Proving Why Urban Design Matters More Than Ever Benches and greenery may seem ...

This publication complements other guidelines produced by the City of New York, such as the DDC's series of handbooks for architects and urban designers and the DOT's Street Design Manual. The Active ...

Architecture and physical fitness may seem completely disconnected, but buildings and public spaces that get the heart rate climbing and muscles moving — by promoting activities such as walking, ...

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