San Jose event of interest to your WGs?...
Bruce England
October 3th, San Jose City Hall...
www.healthysiliconvalley.org
Healthy Silicon Valley's annual conference on 10/3 at San Jose City Hall. This year's conference will feature Dr. Richard Jackson, co-author of Urban Sprawl and Public Health, and Director and Professor of the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute. The goal of this green health conference is to inform and engage attendees about the relationship between public health and the environment, with an emphasis on the built environment.
(book description)
In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does the physical environment in which we live affect our health? For decades, growth and development in our communities has been of the low-density, automobile-dependent type known as sprawl. The authors examine the direct and indirect impacts of sprawl on human health and well-being, and discuss the prospects for improving public health through alternative approaches to design, land use, and transportation.
Urban Sprawl and Public Health offers a comprehensive look at the interface of urban planning, architecture, transportation, community design, and public health. It summarizes the evidence linking adverse health outcomes with sprawling development, and outlines the complex challenges of developing policy that promotes and protects public health. Anyone concerned with issues of public health, urban planning, transportation, architecture, or the environment will want to read Urban Sprawl and Public Health. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Bye for now!
Bruce E