Tools
The following set of tools emerged out of the national mapping tool construction, offering a package of resources aimed at supporting deeper understanding and analysis of critical components of main street health. These tools can be used by anyone to dive into their main street context, however the qualitative tool by Open North is specifically designed for practitioners making infrastructure decisions. More tools are coming soon!
Mapping Tools
Graphing Tools
This tool is only applicable for main streets included in a case study.
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Qualitative Tools
The Measuring Main Streets platfrom (part of the Research Knowledge Initiative program from Infrastructure Canada) was developed by the Canadian Urban Institute in partnership with Environics Analytics and Open North.
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