Health

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A doctor's passion for healthy communities

Review of Designing Healthy Communities, by Richard J. Jackson with Stacy Sinclair, Jossey-Bass, 2011, 261 pp., $50 hardcover.

The DNA of place and the ROI of movement

Cycling and walking investments return up to $11.80 for every $1 invested — why aren't we jumping at that kind of value for transportation expenditures?

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.

Planners and public health specialists must team up

To create healthy places, America needs to groom leaders who combine techniques from planning and public health, a new book says.

Build parks beneath freeways? Great! Just don’t inhale

 Conversion of land under elevated highways into public space may compromise public health.

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