Designing Healthy Communities

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2011-10-25
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 1118033663
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Designing Healthy Communities, the companion book to the acclaimed public television documentary, highlights how we design the built environment and its potential for addressing and preventing many of the nation's devastating childhood and adult health concerns. Dr. Richard Jackson looks at the root causes of our malaise and highlights healthy community designs achieved by planners, designers, and community leaders working together. Ultimately, Dr. Jackson encourages all of us to make the kinds of positive changes highlighted in this book.'In this book Dr. Jackson inhabits the frontier between public health and urban planning, offering us hopeful examples of innovative transformation, and ends with a prescription for individual action. This book is a must read for anyone who cares about how we shape the communities and the world that shapes us.' —Will Rogers, president and CEO, The Trust for Public Land'While debates continue over how to design cities to promote public health, this Download Designing Healthy Communities for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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