NYC and AIA Launch Active Design Guidelines to Help Fight Obesity

We saw yesterday that Greenpeace is using architecture as a method of activism. New York City is doing something similar, though using a different (and deliberately punny, on our behalf) use of the word “activism.” A group of city government agencies, from the Department of Design and Construction to the Office of Management and Budget, have teamed with the AIA in developing and releasing the Active Design Guidelines, a downloadable book intended for designers, architects, and city planners to help promote