What the doctors prescribe

In the 24 chapters of Making Healthy Places, some four dozen contributors offer information and advice on a wide variety of health and planning issues. Here are several specimens and the names of the writers offering them: 

• “There is now good evidence showing that people who use public transit for their daily commutes weigh less and are healthier.” — Richard  J. Jackson

• “There is growing evidence that exposure to traffic emissions is associated with adverse health effects,” including exacerbation of asthma. — Jonathan M. Samet

• “Pedestrian deaths per distance traveled in the United States are three times higher than in Germany and five times higher than in the Netherlands.” The lower rates in those two countries “are partly a result of designing and building safe systems, including road designs that separate vehicles from pedestrians and bicyclists and reduce vehicle speeds.” — David A. Sleet, Rebecca B. Naumann, and Rose Anne Rudd

• “Mixed land use, street connectivity, and residential density are the built environment attributes most consistently related to total physical activity.” — James F. Sallis, Rachel A. Millstein, and Jordan A. Carlson

• The growth of the community garden movement is conspicuous in Philadelphia, where recently some 2,000 people grew

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