Making Healthy Places Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dannenberg, Andrew L. (Editor), Frumkin, Howard (Editor), Jackson, Richard J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2011.
• Subjects: Environment.; Medicine.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Buildings.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Sustainable development.; Sustainable Development.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Urban Ecology.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Building Types and Functions.

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 health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed...