Cities with Better Parks May Have More Physically Active Citizens

Making small improvements to a city’s ParkScore — an evaluation of a city’s park system — may be one way to encourage residents to become more physically active, according to a new study by researchers at Penn State.

The Trust for Public Land created the ParkScore as an index to rank the park systems of the nation’s largest 100 cities.

“What we found was that the higher the ParkScore — which is a way of saying the better the park system — the larger the proportion of the...

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