{"73526":{"#nid":"73526","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CQGRD and Emory University Win Golden Shoe","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD) and Emory University won a Golden Shoe Award from Pedestrians Educating Drivers on Safety (PEDS) for creating an ongoing venue for multi-disciplinary discussions and research on the relationship between health and the built environment through the Healthy Places Research Group.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPEDS is a member-based advocacy organization dedicated to making metro Atlanta safe and accessible for all pedestrians. When PEDS was founded in 1996, pedestrians were not yet on metro Atlanta\u0027s radar screen. Government agencies identified transportation safety exclusively with occupant safety, engineers lacked information about the needs of pedestrians, police officers ticketed crosswalk law violators only after someone had been hit, and media attention to pedestrians was limited to one-inch blurbs following fatal crashes. Worst of all, people rarely thought of themselves as pedestrians. Because of PEDS\u0027 efforts, all that is changing.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Healthy Places Research Group (HPRG) is a collaborative effort involving Emory University\u0027s Rollins School of Public Health, Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Architecture, and CQGRD. It also involves professionals from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), researchers, students, and others interested in exploring the co-relationship between the built environment and the health of communities.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe HPRG meets once a month to discuss issues and exchange information pertaining to health policy and impacts. Participation is open to anyone interested in exploring the characteristics and advancement of healthy places.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD) helps society achieve a sustainable, equitable, superior quality of life through sound planning, policy, and design. The Center\u0027s mission is to produce, disseminate, and help implement new ideas and technologies that improve the theory and practice of quality growth. The HPRG is just one example of how the Center is working to fulfill its mission.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Creating a multi-disciplinary dialogue on public health and the built environment"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"CQGRD and Emory University won a Golden Shoe Award from Pedestrians Educating Drivers on Safety (PEDS) for creating an ongoing venue for multi-disciplinary discussions and research on the relationship between health and the built environment through the Healthy Places Research Group.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Pedestrian organization recognizes research efforts"}],"uid":"27293","created_gmt":"2005-11-09 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:50","author":"Joanie Chembars","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/cqgrd\/Projects\/Healthy_Places.htm","title":"Learn more about HPRG."},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/cqgrd\/","title":"Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.peds.org\/","title":"Pedestrians Educating Drivers on Safety"}],"groups":[{"id":"1260","name":"CQGRD - Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}