Design That Heals: The American Institute of Architects Rewrites the Rules

Featured on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health blog is an award-winning affordable housing complex designed around equity and social cohesion, demonstrating a new era of healthy design.  The South Bronx's Via Verde neighborhood features an orchard, gardens, and grove of evergreens and community residents can come together.

“The fact that a project like Via Verde can be created as affordable housing means that we can and should do this for everyone,” says Dr. Karen Lee, MD MHSc, of Dr. Karen Lee Health + Built Environment Consulting, and co-author of Active Design: Affordable Designs for Affordable Housing, a report based on Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded research. Her active design guidelines helped shape the project, and those in more than 40 other cities worldwide.

Learn more at http://www.rwjf.org/en/culture-of-health/2015/04/design_that_healst.html.