Designing Healthy Communities (PDF)

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. 2012 Nautilus Silver
Award Winning Title in category of "Social
Change"

"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 book highlights the profound health challenges
that face urban residents and the ways in which certain aspects of
the built environment are implicated in their etiology. Jackson
then offers up a set of compelling cases showing how local
activists are working to fight obesity, limit pollution exposure,
reduce auto-dependence, rebuild economies, and promote community
and sustainability. Every city planner and urban designer should
read these cases and use them to inform their everyday
practice."

--Jennifer Wolch, dean, College of Environmental
Design, William W. Wurster Professor, City and Regional Planning,
UC Berkeley

"Dr. Jackson has written a thoughtful text that illustrates how
and why building healthy communities is the right prescription for
America."

--Georges C. Benjamin, MD, executive director, American
Public Health Association

Publisher Companion Web site: www.josseybass.com/go/jackson

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