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In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation'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 summarizes 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.

About the Author :
Howard Frumkin is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. He is an internist, epidemiologist, and environmental and occupational medicine specialist. He received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania and his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Public Health from Harvard. Larry Frank is Bombadier Chair in Sustainable Transportation Systems at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. He recently left the Georgia Institute of Technology where he was an assistant professor in the City Planning Program. He is a registered landscape architect and holds a master in Civil Engineering Transportation Planning and a Ph.D. in Urban Design and Planning from the University of Washington. Richard Jackson is Director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. He is also Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Rollins School of Public Health. He is a MD and holds a Masters in Public Health.

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"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 "


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  • ISBN-13: 9781423765592
  • Publisher: Island Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Island Press
  • Sub Title: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities
  • ISBN-10: 1423765591
  • Publisher Date: 14 May 2014
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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