Richard J. Jackson

Designing Healthy Communities (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Designing Healthy Communities, the companion book to the acclaimed public television documentary, highlights how we design the built environment and its potential for addressing and preventing many of the nation's devastating childhood and adult health concerns. Dr. Richard Jackson looks at the root causes of our malaise and highlights healthy community designs achieved by planners, designers, and community leaders working together. Ultimately, Dr. Jackson encourages all of us to make the kinds of positive changes highlighted in this book. 2012 Nautilus Silver Award Winning Title in category of "Social Change"

"In this book Dr. Jackson inhabits the frontier between public health and urban planning, offering us hopeful examples of innovative transformation, and ends with a prescription for individual action. This book is a must read for anyone who cares about how we shape the communities and the world that shapes us." -Will Rogers, president and CEO, The Trust for Public Land

"While debates continue over how to design cities to promote public health, this book highlights the profound health challenges that face urban residents and the ways in which certain aspects of the built environment are implicated in their etiology. Jackson then offers up a set of compelling cases showing how local activists are working to fight obesity, limit pollution exposure, reduce auto-dependence, rebuild economies, and promote community and sustainability. Every city planner and urban designer should read these cases and use them to inform their everyday practice." -Jennifer Wolch, dean, College of Environmental Design, William W. Wurster Professor, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

"Dr. Jackson has written a thoughtful text that illustrates how and why building healthy communities is the right prescription for America." -Georges C. Benjamin, MD, executive director, American Public Health Association

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118129838
• Artikelnr.: 37484648

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH, is a pediatrician and professor and chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health at University of California, Los Angeles. He is former California State Health Officer and for nine years was the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta.

Stacy Sinclair, EdD, is director of education for Media Policy Center in Santa Monica, California, which produced the documentary Designing Healthy Communities. She also is cofounder of EdExcellence Consulting, Inc.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword vii
Anthony Iton
Preface ix
The Author xvii
Prologue: Why I Care About the Built Environment xix
PART I. HEALTH AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: AN INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 What Does Love, or Caritas, Have to Do with the Built
Environment? 3
We Love Our Families and Our Country, but Do We Really Love Ourselves? 4
For Love of Family 6
For Love of Community 7
For Love of Our Nation and the World 14
Chapter 2 What Is Health, and How Do We Measure It? 15
Personal Health 17
Public Health Policy 23
Environmental Health 28
Mental and Social Health 30
Chapter 3 Can the Built Environment Build Community? 35
Organic Places Are Healthy Places 36
Urban Centers 41
State and Nation 45
PART II. EXAMPLES OF CHANGE
Chapter 4 From Monoculture to Human Culture: the Belmar district of
Lakewood, Colorado 53
Symptoms 54
Diagnosis 60
Cure 62
Prevention 64
Chapter 5 Using New Urbanism Principles to Build Community: Prairie
Crossing, Illinois 67
Symptoms 69
Diagnosis 70
Cure 73
Prevention 77
Chapter 6 Saving America's Downtowns and Local History Through the
Political Process: Charleston, South Carolina 79
Symptoms 80
Diagnosis 82
Cure 86
Prevention 88
Chapter 7 Reinventing a Healthy City Through Community Leadership for
Sustainability: Elgin, Illinois 91
Symptoms 92
Diagnosis 94
Cure 98
Prevention 104
Chapter 8 Ending Car Captivity: Boulder, Colorado 107
Symptoms 108
Diagnosis 110
Cure 115
Prevention 117
Chapter 9 Ports as Partners in Health: Oakland, California 119
Symptoms 120
Diagnosis 123
Cure 132
Prevention 135
Chapter 10 The City That Won't Give Up: Detroit, Michigan 139
Symptoms 140
Diagnosis 144
Cure (or at Least Treatment) 146
Prevention 155
PART III. BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD
Chapter 11 What's Happening in Your Community? 159
Determining the Health of Your Community 159
Conducting an Audit of Your Built Environment 166
Chapter 12 Who Are the Players? 175
Finding Your Stakeholders 178
Social Networking 187
Getting Everyone to Pull Together 188
Chapter 13 Create an Action Plan 189
Analyze the Symptoms 189
Determine the Diagnosis 194
Implement the Cure 195
Protect Through Prevention 206
Epilogue: Now It's Your Turn 207
Notes 213
Index 219

Rezensionen

"Though intended as a companion to a four-part TV series he is hosting on PBS stations, the book stands on its own very well. Though professionals of many stripes can learn from Designing Healthy Communities, its greatest strength is likely to lie in energizing and educating a broad public -- readers described by Dr. Jackson as "those of us who are concerned about our communities and the world we are giving to our children." - Better Cities/Towns, February 2012.

"It's called the 'built environment' and if you're a public health whiz, you know exactly what that means. If you don't, Dr. Richard Jackson, Chair of UCLA's Environmental Health Sciences Department believes it's critical you do." - The California Report health blog, KQED (San Francisco)

"An admirer of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Dr. Jackson argues that such details of daily life make existence worthwhile. And that is what "Designing Healthy Communities" is all about." - Reporting on Health (USC Annenberg)

"The new book, "Designing Healthy Communities," says: 'When there is nearly nothing within walking distance to interest a young person and it is near-lethal to bicycle, he or she must relinquish autonomy -- a capacity every creature must develop just as much as strength and endurance.'" - New York Times, January, 31, 2012