Partnerships for parks and physical activity.

Purpose: Given the need for comprehensive and multidisciplinary active living interventions, this article describes an innovative partnership for park design and evaluation.

Design: The Trust for Public Land partnered with the RAND Corporation and the San Francisco Department of Public Health to generate context-sensitive active park design, establish evaluation methods, and build the framework for future collaboration.

Setting: These partners worked together from 2009 to 2012 to design, renovate, and study parks in San Francisco, California.