Designing Healthy Communities, the companion book to the acclaimed public television documentary, highlights how we design the built environment and its potenti

Health and Community Design is a comprehensive examination of how the built environment encourages or discourages physical activity, drawing together insights f

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

Applying the principles of human-centered design to real-world health care challenges, from drug packaging to early detection of breast cancer. This book makes

'Urban Sprawl and Public Health' offers a survey of the impact that the built environment can have on the health of the people who inhabit our cities. The autho