The greenbelt system in Kingwood Texas winds throughout the community. These trails preserve the wildlife in the area and to provide safe access to schools, parks and shopping with out having to cross major roads. Residents can walk, ride bikes or roller blade through tunnels built along the major streets. You can pick up a Kingwood Greenbelt System map from the Kingwood Service Association Office located at 1102 Kingwood Drive, Suite 104, Kingwood, TX 77339. They will as you to present your driver's license showing you are a resident of Kingwood in order to give you a map.

1. Kingwood
Greenbelts
Kathryn Housel

2. The Livable Forest
• Master Planned Community: a type of residential
plan that includes an unusual number of recreational
amenities such as parks, golf courses, lakes, bike
paths, and jogging trails.-buisnessdictionary.com
• Kingwood was developed in 1971 by the Friendswood
Development Company (an Exxon subsidiary) on
former King Ranch land.
• Annexed by Houston 2000

3. Framing
Stakeholder Interests Action
Kingwood Residents
utilize the greenbelts
for relaxation or
exercise
use the park and
trails and volunteer
for a variety of
associations
Developers
residential and
commercial building
Kingwood
annexation
Surrounding Cities
expanding for their
residents
use the greenbelts
to link the cities

4. Eco-Advertising

5. Eco-tourism
• Ecotourism is mainly directed
to current and future
residents.
• 75+ miles of greenbelts,
multiple parks, two golf
courses and access to Lake
Houston
• Parks offer camps, trails, eco-
education programs
• Each village in the community
has its own playground park
and pool that is maintained by
the volunteer village
association.

6. Healthy Parks Healthy People
• “restorative environments require four
elements: fascination (an involuntary
form of attention requiring effortless
interest or curiosity); a sense of being
away (temporary escape from one’s
usual setting or situation); extent or
scope (a sense of being a part of a
larger whole); and compatibility with an
individual’s inclinations (opportunity
provided by the setting and whether they
satisfy the individual’s purposes).”
-48 healthy nature healthy people
• Kingwood’s original design guaranteed
that the residents had a connection to
nature.

7. Eco-Semiotics
2nd nature

8. Animal & Indigenous Communication
Greenbelts can be
dangerous

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