Open space helps us stay healthy.
Recent reports show that sprawling growth is bad for human health and that access to local open spaces is beneficial to physical and emotional health. Using open spaces for exercise can make a dramatic improvement in our individual and collective physical health.

Click here to read "Creating a Healthy Environment: The Impact of the Built Environment on Public Health," a report published by the Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse.

Click here to read "Sprawl is Unhealthy, CDC Researchers Conclude," a one-page article by an Atlanta Journal-Constitution staff writer.

Click here to read about the state's health promotion program, which provides funding to local health departments to "create environments and policies that support healthy lifestyles." Such environments include open spaces.