Onyschuk and P. Nikolakokos, Smart Growth in North America: New Ways to Create Livable Communities (Toronto, ON: Canadian Urban Institute, 2001). 10 for everyone at all stages of life, including young people, immigrants, low‐income people, and seniors9. Many documents now explicitly state that the goal of Smart Growth is to create Livable Communities (another com [...] S. In Canada, NGOs like the Canadian Urban Institute worked with a variety of stakeholders to successfully launch discussion and recognition of “the urban agenda”12. As the Urban Land Institute and others have noted, providing services for unmanaged growth is financially inefficient, while the land values of standard suburban development often suffer due to poor p [...] Green infrastructure. To guide implementation of the elements suggested by HC principles, OPPI partnered with the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing on a handbook called Planning by Design. The handbook provides a basic process and supporting municipal checklist for exploring ideas and opportunities for health‐friendly communities. This approach is more holistic tha [...] Quality of life. A Universal Design guide describes desirable features for accessible housing at the dwelling scale but because the abilities of individuals are diverse, the guide is not prescriptive, but rather lists some structural and non‐structural features to look for. Policy is at a larger scale, as with the Americans with Disabilities Act in the United States or i [...] Low physical effort. These principles were developed as the basis for presentations to planners and other stakeholders in advance of the Age Friendly Communities initiative and have to date not only been addressed by students but also formed the basis of testimony before the Special Senate Committee on Aging.31 4.5 Child Friendly Cities The idea to adopt “child friendly