Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities. Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, Richard Joseph Jackson

Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities



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Language: English
Page: 364
ISBN: 1559633050, 9781423765592

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"Suburban sprawl is killing us. Increasingly, physicians, public health officials, planners, and designers recognize the relationships between our health and our built surroundings. Urban Sprawl and Public Health offers a cogent diagnosis of this health menace as well as timely prescriptions for healing our cities." (Frederick Steiner dean, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin )

"A growing body of research demonstrates that community design and our built environment have enormous potential for addressing many of our chief public health concerns. The authors convincingly argue that building a healthier future is not only possible, but essential." (Georges C. Benjamin MD, FACP, executive director, APHA )

"No one chooses to be obese, in poor health, or stuck in traffic. Frumkin, Jackson, and Frank make the compelling point that unless Americans are given more choice in where and how they live and travel, all of us will bear the burden, not just in terms of extra pounds, but also in terms of lower quality of life, higher health care costs, reduced life expectancy, and greater isolation, especially at the vulnerable beginning and end of our lives.  I hope every elected and appointed official in the U.S. reads this book and then acts on it to avert the economic and health crisis that is fast headed our way." (Governor Parris N. Glendening president, Smart Growth Leadership Institute )

"Years ago, we could see that the correlation between sprawl and poor health should be made. Now it is done. Urban Sprawl and Public Health details how our lifestyle leads to serious health problems. This book should be reviewed widely and its facts should be known by all of us. It will be one of the central texts of the New Urbanism." (Andres Duany, author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream )

About the Author

HOWARD FRUMKIN is professor and chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta. LAWRENCE FRANK is Bombardier Chair in Sustainable Transportation Systems at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. RICHARD JACKSON is state public health officer at the California Department of Health Services.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



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