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

Paperback • 2004 • Norwegian Bokmål

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

By Howard Frumkin

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About the book

In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, 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 alternati...Show more

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ISBN

9781559633055

Publisher

Washington, DC, USA : Island Press

Published year

2004

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

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

Format

Paperback

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