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Health and Community Design

The Impact Of The Built Environment On Physical Activity
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Health and Community Design is a comprehensive examination of how the built environment encourages or discourages physical activity, drawing together insights from a range of research on the relationships between urban form and public health. It provides important information about the factors that influence decisions about physical activity and modes of travel, and about how land use patterns can be changed to help overcome barriers to physical activity. Chapters examine:+óGé¼-ó the historical relationship between health and urban form in the United States
+óGé¼-ó why urban and suburban development should be designed to promote moderate types of physical activity
+óGé¼-ó the divergent needs and requirements of different groups of people and the role of those needs in setting policy
+óGé¼-ó how different settings make it easier or more difficult to incorporate walking and bicycling into everyday activitiesA concluding chapter reviews the arguments presented and sketches a research agenda for the future.
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Preface and Acknowledgments
 
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Public Health and Urban Form In America
Chapter 3. Physical Activity and Public Health
Chapter 4. Physical Activity
Chapter 5. Physical Activity
Chapter 6. Understanding the Built Environment
Chapter 7. Transportation Systems
Chapter 8. Land Use Patterns
Chapter 9. Urban Design Characteristics
Chapter 10. Application of Principles
Chapter 11. Conclusion
 
Appendix: Summary of Selected Traffic Calming Studies
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Index
"The book is highly recommended for urban planners and anyone serious about fighting obesity in this country, which clearly is no longer an odd pairing."
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