What can be done to promote exercise in public spaces

There are calls for Melbourne to better use public spaces to promote exercise.

Dr Lucy Gunn, Research Fellow with the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab at the RMIT Centre for Urban Research, said there was no doubt incidental exercise was crucial in both physical and mental health.

“One of the problems we face in city planning is we don’t always have good access to public open spaces,” she said.

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