Health and Community Design
Subtitle: The Impact Of The Built Environment On Physical Activity
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: May 23, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781559639170
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Environmental factors; Regional & Area Planning; Public Health; Health aspects; Environmental Health; Urban Transportation; Transportation; Politics / Current Events; Medical; Planning; Health behavior; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev; Architecture / Planning; Health & Fitness / General; City planning; General; Health Care Delivery; Urban health
First sentence: Community design influences human behavior.
Description: 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: the historical relationship between health and urban form in the United States; why urban and suburban development should be designed to promote moderate types of physical activity; the divergent needs and requirements of different groups of people and the role of those needs in setting policy; how different settings make it easier or more difficult to incorporate walking and bicycling into everyday activities. A concluding chapter reviews the arguments presented and sketches a research agenda for the future.