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Remaking America’s medical districts: a challenge for NU
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New Urban News Article with images and sidebar, 10/1/2006
Proposals in Miami and Memphis suggest hospitals and health institutions could be focal points for walkable, mixed-use districts.
It’s hard to think of any city in the US that has made its medical district a place where people really want to be. Even though medicine and health care are the nation’s biggest growth industry, accounting for 16 percent of America’s gross domestic product, and even though 1.7 million jobs have been created in this field since 2001 — more than in any other sector of the US economy — there have been few efforts to capitalize on the urban design potential of hospitals and health-related institutions.

Common ground found for urbanism and the disabled
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New Urban News Article with images, 4/1/2009
“Lifelong Communities” charrette spurs a warming of relations between new urbanists and  disability-rights activists.
The Atlanta Regional Commission had Andres Duany lead a charrette in February aimed at helping municipal and county governments foster “Lifelong Communities” — places where people can comfortably live from childhood to old age.

Health and aging
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Chapter 22 of the New Urbanism Best Practices Guide
From a health perspective, one of the best things a person can do is to make walking a part of daily life. It’s less dangerous to live in a relatively high-crime city than in a suburb where the crime rate is lower. Also examined is the Lifelong Communities Initiative of the Atlanta Regional Commission, which identified ways of making communities versatile and convenient so that people can live in them at any age.