Making healthy places : designing and building for health, well-being, and sustainability / edited by Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin, and Richard J. Jackson.

Date:
[2011]
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Description

"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 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 offers a fresh and comprehensive look at this vital subject today. There is no other book with the depth, breadth, vision, and accessibility that this book offers. In addition to being of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students in public health and urban planning, it will be essential reading for public health officials, planners, architects, landscape architects, environmentalists, and all those who care about the design of their communities. Like a well-trained doctor, Making Healthy Places presents a diagnosis of-and offers treatment for-problems related to the built environment. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, with contributions from experts in a range of fields, it imparts a wealth of practical information, with an emphasis on demonstrated and promising solutions to commonly occurring problems."--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [2011]

Physical description

xxii, 417 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Contributors

Contents

An introduction to healthy places / Howard Frumkin [and others] -- The impact of community design on health. Community design for physical activity / James F. Sallis, Rachel A. Millstein, and Jordan A. Carlson ; Food environments / Carolyn Cannuscio and Karen Glanz ; Community design and air quality / Jonathan M. Samet ; Injuries and the built environment / David A. Sleet, Rebecca B. Naumann, and Rose Anne Rudd ; Community design for water quantity and quality / Lorraine C. Backer ; Mental health and the built environment / William C. Sullivan and Chun-Yen Chang ; Social capital and community design / Caitlin Eicher and Ichiro Kawachi ; Vulnerable populations and the built environment / Chris S. Kochtitzky -- Diagnosing and healing our built environments. Transportation and land use / Reid Ewing [and others] ; Healthy homes / James Krieger and David E. Jacobs ; Healthy workplaces / Donna S. Heidel [and others] ; Healthy health care settings / Craig Zimring and Jennifer DuBose ; Healthy schools / Howard Frumkin and Jared Fox ; Contact with nature / Howard Frumkin and Jared Fox ; Resiliency to disasters / Timothy Beatley -- Strategies for healthy places : a toolbox. Behavioral choices and the built environment / Margaret Schneider ; Policy and legislation for healthy places / Lisa M. Feldstein ; Community engagement in design and planning / Manal J. Aboelata, Leah Ersoylu, and Larry Cohen ; Measuring, assessing, and certifying healthy places / Andrew L. Dannenberg and Arthur M. Wendel -- Looking outward, looking ahead. Training the next generation to promote healthy places / Nisha D. Botchwey and Matthew J. Trowbridge ; Healthy places research : emerging opportunities / Richard J. Jackson, Arthur M. Wendel, and Andrew L. Dannenberg ; Urban health in low- and middle-income countries / Jennifer C. Johnson and Sandro Galea ; Built environments of the future / Anthony G. Capon and Susan M. Thompson.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    Medical Collection
    WA380 2011M23
    		Open shelves

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  • 9781597267267
  • 1597267260
  • 9781597267274
  • 1597267279