In the U.S. Blue Zones, grocery stores replace candy in checkout aisles with fruit, restaurants add healthier options to the menu, city planners designate more bike lanes and create more appealing walkways, and "walking school buses" bring children to school.
To that end, more pedestrian walkways and 44 kms (27 miles) of bicycle paths will allow residents to ditch cars.
More viewing platforms, walkways and rest rooms are due to open around the country in the next year, and the programme now has its own showcase, the Travel Museum in Balestrand.
There's also an exhibit there, outlining how Olmsted Brothers, the company carried on by Frederick Law Olmsted's son and stepson, designed Seattle's more elegant parks, walkways and boulevards in the first decade of the 20th century.
Each year more than 30,000 visitors enjoy the gardens' five miles of walkways and more than 8,000 species and varieties of plants.
Each year more than 300,000 visitors enjoy the gardens' five miles of walkways and more than 8,000 species and varieties of plants.
It included a new Louis Armstrong Stadium, a new Grandstand Court, a viewing pavilion for practice courts, expanded walkways and more.
Along the riverside, there will be space for more bars, cafes, pedestrian walkways, and pontoons for electric boats for rides in the river.
Warmer weather has awakened the sizable corps of masons in Westchester County from hibernation, and the craftsmen are again hard at work, turning stone, brick and concrete into walls, foundations, walkways and more.
