Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities

Andres Duany, Town Planner DPZ, and author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
"details how our lifestyle leads to serious health problems....one of the central texts of the New Urbanism."

Book Description
In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does the physical environment in which we live affect our health? For decades, growth and development in our communities has been of the low-density, automobile-dependent type known as sprawl. The authors examine the direct and indirect impacts of sprawl on human health and well-being, and discuss the prospects for improving public health through alternative approaches to design, land use, and transportation. Urban Sprawl and Public Health offers a comprehensive look at the interface of urban planning, architecture, transportation, community design, and public health. It summarizes the evidence linking adverse health outcomes with sprawling development, and outlines the complex challenges of developing policy that promotes and protects public health. Anyone concerned with issues of public health, urban planning, transportation, architecture, or the environment will want to read Urban Sprawl and Public Health.

About the Author
HOWARD FRUMKIN is professor and chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta. LAWRENCE FRANK is Bombardier Chair in Sustainable Transportation Systems at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. RICHARD JACKSON is state public health officer at the California Department of Health Services.


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This volume examines the interface of urban planning, architecture, transportation, community design and public health. Frumkin (environmental and occupational health, Emory U.) and co-authors (a transportation specialist and a state public health officer) summarize the evidence linking adverse health outcomes with sprawling development and discuss the possibilities for improving public health through alternative approaches to design, land use, and transportation. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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