The Carolina Thread Trail gives grateful acknowledgement to the following websites and other sources used in creating this website:
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Erica Gies, The Health Benefits of Parks: How Parks Help Keep Americans and Their Communities Fit and Healthy (San Francisco: The Trust for Public Land, 2007), 9-20
http://www.tpl.org/tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=21053&folder_id=175
Andrea Faber Taylor et al., "Coping with ADD: The Surprising Connection to Green Play Settings," Environment and Behavior, 33, no. 1 (January 2001): 54-77
Joan Packer Isenberg and Nancy Quisenberry, "Play: Essential for All Children," Association for Childhood Education International (2002)
http://www.udel.edu/bateman/acei/playpaper.htm.
B.A. Cohen et al., Mean Streets: Pedestrian Safety and Reform of the Nation's Transportation Law (Washington, DC: Surface Transportation Project and Environmental Working Group, 1997)
http://www.ewg.org/reports/meanstreets/mean.html
B. McCann and B. DeLille, Mean Streets 2000: Pedestrian Safety, Health and Federal Transportation Spending (Washington, DC: Surface Transportation Policy Project, 2000)
http://www.transact.org/report.asp?id=235
U.S. Census Bureau, Estimates of Population Change for Metropolitan Statistical Areas and Rankings: July 1, 2005 to July 1, 2006
http://www.census.gov/CBSA-EST2006-05.xls
Elizabeth Ouzts, Losing our Natural Heritage: Development and Open Space Loss in North Carolina (Raleigh: Environment North Carolina Research and Policy Center, 2007)
https://www.environmentnorthcarolina.org/Losing_Our_Natural_Heritage.pdf
Frances E. Kuo, "Coping with Poverty: Impacts of Environment and Attention in the Inner City," Environment and Behavior 33, no. 1 (January 2001): 54-57
Frances E. Kuo, "Fertile Ground for Community: Inner City Neighborhood Common Spaces," American Journal of Community Psychology 26, no. 6 (1998)
http://webs.aces.uiuc.edu/herl/docs/KuoSulColeyBrunson.pdf.
Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands, School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Indiana University, Summary Report Indiana Trails Study: A Study of Trails in 6 Indiana Cities (Bloomington: Indiana University, 30 November 2001)
Tod Schneider, "Bike Path Phobia: Selling Skeptics on Urban Greenway Bike Path Safety," Parks and Recreation (August 2000)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1145/is_8_35/ai_65132250
Friends of the Genessee Valley Greenway
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