The first edition of Making Healthy Places offered a visionary and thoroughly researched treatment of the connections between constructed environments and human

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

This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published by Island Press in 2004. That book sparked a range of

'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

In modern-day society the main threats to public health are now considered ‘avoidable illnesses’, which are often caused by a lack of exercise and physical