Format:
1 online resource (283 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118129821
Series Statement:
New York Academy of Sciences Series
Content:
Intro -- DESIGNING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- THE PERFECT STORM -- BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES -- ABOUT THIS BOOK -- THE TELEVISION SERIES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- THE AUTHOR -- PROLOGUE: WHY I CARE ABOUT THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT -- GROWING UP -- PRACTICING MEDICINE -- LEAVING TRADITIONAL MEDICINE -- ESTABLISHING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH -- CONSIDERING THE FUTURE -- PART ONE HEALTH AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: AN INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 What Does Love, or Caritas, Have to Do with the Built Environment? -- WE LOVE OUR FAMILIES AND OUR COUNTRY, BUT DO WE REALLY LOVE OURSELVES? -- FOR LOVE OF FAMILY -- FOR LOVE OF COMMUNITY -- Creating a Negative Place -- Being Open to Cultural Shifts -- Sharing Interests -- FOR LOVE OF OUR NATION AND THE WORLD -- Chapter 2 What Is Health, and How Do We Measure It? -- PERSONAL HEALTH -- The Residential Microenvironment -- The Obesity Challenge -- PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY -- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH -- MENTAL AND SOCIAL HEALTH -- Chapter 3 Can the Built Environment Build Community? -- ORGANIC PLACES ARE HEALTHY PLACES -- Layers of Communities Interact with the Built Environment -- Our Neighborhoods -- URBAN CENTERS -- STATE AND NATION -- Effective Involvement -- Local Water Is a Global Issue -- Local Health Is a Global Issue -- PART TWO EXAMPLES OF CHANGE -- Chapter 4 From Monoculture to Human Culture: The Belmar District of Lakewood, Colorado -- SYMPTOMS -- Building Lakewood's First Shopping Mall -- Recognizing a Dying Community -- DIAGNOSIS -- CURE -- PREVENTION -- Chapter 5 Using New Urbanism Principles to Build Community: Prairie Crossing, Illinois -- SYMPTOMS -- DIAGNOSIS -- CURE -- Land Preservation -- Prairie Crossing Housing Design -- The Prairie Crossing Way of Life -- The Prairie Crossing Farm -- Does Prairie Crossing Make Financial Sense? -- PREVENTION.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781118033661
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781118033661
Language:
English
