Making Healthy Places

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ISBN: 1597267279

Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability

The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways.
format paperback language english publication year 13 10 2011 subject geography environment agriculture subject 2 environment planning making healthy places designing and building for health well being and susta author biography andrew l dannenberg mdmph serves as a consultant to and formerly was team leader of the healthy community design initiative in the national center for environmental health at the cdc he is an affiliate professor at the university of washington seattle howard frumkin
There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments.
A This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and suburbs, and the health of residents, especially humans. Since then, numerous studies have extended and refined the book's research and reporting.

Making Healthy Places by Andrew L. Danneberg

Making Healthy Places : Paperback : Island Press : 9781597267274 : 1597267279 : 13 Oct 2011 : The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. This title presents a diagnosis of - and offers treatment for - problems related to the built environment. Drawing on the scientific evidence, it imparts practical information, with an emphasis on demonstrated and promising solutions to the problems.

The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments. This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and subu

format paperback language english publication year 13 10 2011 subject geography environment agriculture subject 2 environment planning author biography andrew l dannenberg mdmph serves as a consultant to and formerly was team leader of the healthy community design initiative in the national center for environmental health at the cdc he is an affiliate professor at the university of washington seattle howard frumkin md dr ph is dean of the school of public health at the university of washin

Categories: Architecture * General. Contributors: Andrew L. Dannenberg - Editor. Format: Paperback

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There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments.
A This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and suburbs, and the health of residents, especially humans