Screen LibraryMaking healthy places：designing and building for health, well-being, and sustainability
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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| Published: |
Island Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Washington, D.C. |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxii, 417 p.: ill., maps (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781597267267 (hardback) 1597267260 (hardback) 9781597267274 (paper) 1597267279 (paper) |
| Index Number: | X22 |
| CLC: |
X22 C912.81-05 |
| Call Number: | C912.81-05/M235 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. "The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments. This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and s |