This looks great and it’s one of the most important health issues in our country. Glad to see there is more attention being given to why our cities and economy were designed to make health so hard.
A provocative new 4-hour series soon to air on public television, Designing Healthy Communities, examines the impact of our built environment on key public health indices, including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, cancer and depression. The series documents the connection between bad community design and burgeoning health consequences, and discusses the remedies available to fix what has become an urgent crisis.
Retrofitting Suburbia (by MPC)
I first heard about this in my undergrad elective on Marine Megafauna. Even the subtlest changes to behavior in the largest creature in the ocean can have drastic effects on all others that swim, float or dive into the ocean. A very literal ripple effect…
