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:bull; the historical relationship between health and urban form in the United Statesbull; why urban and suburban development should be designed to promote moderate types of physical activitybull; the divergent needs and requirements of different groups of people and the role of those needs in setting policybull; how different settings make it easier or more difficult to incorporate walking and bicycling into everyday activitiesA concluding chapter reviews the arguments presented and sketches a research agenda for the future.
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