Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities
Howard Frumkin
Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Lawrence Frank
University of British Columbia, Canada
Richard Jackson
California Department of Health Services, USA
Photographs, Index
288 pages
Publisher:
Island Press, USA
In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of North America's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does the physical environment in which we live affect our health? For decades, growth and development in our communities has been of the low-density, automobile-dependent type known as sprawl. The authors examine the direct and indirect impacts of sprawl on human health and well-being, and discuss the prospects for improving public health through alternative approaches to design, land use and transportation.
Urban Sprawl and Public Health offers a comprehensive look at the interface of urban planning, architecture, transportation, community design and public health. It summarises the evidence linking adverse health outcomes with sprawling development, and outlines the complex challenges of developing policy that promotes and protects public health. Anyone concerned with issues of public health, urban planning, transportation, architecture, or the environment will want to read Urban Sprawl and Public Health.
Howard Frumkin is professor and chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, USA.
Lawrence Frank is Bombardier Chair in Sustainable Transportation Systems at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Richard Jackson is state public health officer at the California Department of Health Services, USA.
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