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

Making Healthy Places surveys the many intersections between health and the built environment, from the scale of buildings to the scale of metro areas, and acro

'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