Two playgrounds in Richmond will be re-designed and renovated in the spring of 2009. This project will conduct assessments of social capital (through a survey of neighborhood residents), crime activity, observations of who visits the playground and what they do there, and accelerometer measures of children’s activity in the playground before and after the renovation work.
Principal Investigator: June Tester (Children’s Hospital Research Institute)
Other Investigators: Irene Yen
Funding Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Funding Period: 12/1/08-11/30/09