Richard J. Jackson, Stacy Sinclair

Designing Healthy Communities

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Produktbeschreibung

Designing Healthy Communities, the companion book to the acclaimed public television documentary, highlights how we design the built environment and its potential for addressing and preventing many of the nation's devastating childhood and adult health concerns. Dr. Richard Jackson looks at the root causes of our malaise and highlights healthy community designs achieved by planners, designers, and community leaders working together. Ultimately, Dr. Jackson encourages all of us to make the kinds of positive changes highlighted in this book.

"In this book Dr. Jackson inhabits the frontier between public health and urban planning, offering us hopeful examples of innovative transformation, and ends with a prescription for individual action. This book is a must read for anyone who cares about how we shape the communities and the world that shapes us." -- Will Rogers, president and CEO, The Trust for Public Land

"While debates continue over how to design cities to promote public health, this book highlights the profound health challenges that face urban residents and the ways in which certain aspects of the built environment are implicated in their etiology. Jackson then offers up a set of compelling cases showing how local activists are working to fight obesity, limit pollution exposure, reduce auto-dependence, rebuild economies, and promote community and sustainability. Every city planner and urban designer should read these cases and use them to inform their everyday practice." -- Jennifer Wolch, dean, College of Environmental Design, William W. Wurster Professor, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

"Dr. Jackson has written a thoughtful text that illustrates how and why building healthy communities is the right prescription for America." -- Georges C. Benjamin, MD, executive director, American Public Health Association Publisher Companion Web site: www.josseybass.com/go/jackson Additional media and content: http://dhc.mediapolicycenter.org

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 267mm x 187mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9781118033661
• ISBN-10: 1118033663
• Artikelnr.: 33119340

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH, is a pediatrician and professor and chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health at University of California, Los Angeles. He is former California State Health Officer and for nine years was the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta. Stacy Sinclair, EdD, is director of education for Media Policy Center in Santa Monica, California, which produced the documentary Designing Healthy Communities. She also is cofounder of EdExcellence Consulting, Inc.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword vii Anthony Iton Preface ix The Author xvii Prologue: Why I Care
About the Built Environment xix PART I. HEALTH AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT:
AN INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 What Does Love, or Caritas, Have to Do with the
Built Environment? 3 We Love Our Families and Our Country, but Do We Really
Love Ourselves? 4 For Love of Family 6 For Love of Community 7 For Love of
Our Nation and the World 14 Chapter 2 What Is Health, and How Do We Measure
It? 15 Personal Health 17 Public Health Policy 23 Environmental Health 28
Mental and Social Health 30 Chapter 3 Can the Built Environment Build
Community? 35 Organic Places Are Healthy Places 36 Urban Centers 41 State
and Nation 45 PART II. EXAMPLES OF CHANGE Chapter 4 From Monoculture to
Human Culture: the Belmar district of Lakewood, Colorado 53 Symptoms 54
Diagnosis 60 Cure 62 Prevention 64 Chapter 5 Using New Urbanism Principles
to Build Community: Prairie Crossing, Illinois 67 Symptoms 69 Diagnosis 70
Cure 73 Prevention 77 Chapter 6 Saving America's Downtowns and Local
History Through the Political Process: Charleston, South Carolina 79
Symptoms 80 Diagnosis 82 Cure 86 Prevention 88 Chapter 7 Reinventing a
Healthy City Through Community Leadership for Sustainability: Elgin,
Illinois 91 Symptoms 92 Diagnosis 94 Cure 98 Prevention 104 Chapter 8
Ending Car Captivity: Boulder, Colorado 107 Symptoms 108 Diagnosis 110 Cure
115 Prevention 117 Chapter 9 Ports as Partners in Health: Oakland,
California 119 Symptoms 120 Diagnosis 123 Cure 132 Prevention 135 Chapter
10 The City That Won't Give Up: Detroit, Michigan 139 Symptoms 140
Diagnosis 144 Cure (or at Least Treatment) 146 Prevention 155 PART III. BE
THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD Chapter 11 What's Happening in Your
Community? 159 Determining the Health of Your Community 159 Conducting an
Audit of Your Built Environment 166 Chapter 12 Who Are the Players? 175
Finding Your Stakeholders 178 Social Networking 187 Getting Everyone to
Pull Together 188 Chapter 13 Create an Action Plan 189 Analyze the Symptoms
189 Determine the Diagnosis 194 Implement the Cure 195 Protect Through
Prevention 206 Epilogue: Now It's Your Turn 207 Notes 213 Index 219

Rezensionen

"Though intended as a companion to a four-part TV series he is hosting on PBS stations, the book stands on its own very well. Though professionals of many stripes can learn from Designing Healthy Communities, its greatest strength is likely to lie in energizing and educating a broad public -- readers described by Dr. Jackson as "those of us who are concerned about our communities and the world we are giving to our children." - Better Cities/Towns, February 2012.

"It's called the 'built environment' and if you're a public health whiz, you know exactly what that means. If you don't, Dr. Richard Jackson, Chair of UCLA's Environmental Health Sciences Department believes it's critical you do." - The California Report health blog, KQED (San Francisco)

"An admirer of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Dr. Jackson argues that such details of daily life make existence worthwhile. And that is what "Designing Healthy Communities" is all about." - Reporting on Health (USC Annenberg)

"The new book, "Designing Healthy Communities," says: 'When there is nearly nothing within walking distance to interest a young person and it is near-lethal to bicycle, he or she must relinquish autonomy -- a capacity every creature must develop just as much as strength and endurance.'" - New York Times, January, 31, 2012