Title: Unit 14 Glossary
Course: BLD 159 Intro to Brownfield Remediation, Land Re-use, and Public Health > Section: BLD 159 Intro to Brownfield Remediation, Land Re-use, and Public Health

Unit 14 Glossary

Terms

Term | Definitions
Design Charrette | A charrette is an intensive workshop in which various stakeholders and experts are brought together to address a particular design issue.
Food Access | Limited access to supermarkets, supercenters, grocery stores, or other sources of healthy and affordable food may make it harder for some Americans to eat a healthy diet.
Food Desert | Census tracts that are both low income and low access may have an absence of full service grocery stores, gardens, or other sources of nutritious foods.
Walkability | A way to describe how walkable a community area is. This includes sidewalks and linkages to amenities.
Walkable Community | A walkable community is one where it is easy and safe to walk to goods and services (i.e., grocery stores, post offices, health clinics, etc.). Walkable communities encourage pedestrian activity, ...