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Health and Community Design:
The Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity

by Lawrence O. Frank;  Peter O. Engelke;  Thomas L. Schmid

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This book examines how the built environment encourages or discourages physical activity, and thus affects human health. It draws together insights from a range of research on the relationships between urban form and public health. The link between obesity and automobile-based (sprawl) development is compelling--and frightening. Design solutions are limited and visuals are poor.

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Publisher Island Press 1718 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20009-1148 Phone: 202-232-7933 Toll-free: 800-828-1302 Fax: 202-234-1328 www.islandpress.org Full list of 33 items from this publisher

Available as: book (paperback) Length: 253 pages Published: 2003 ISBN: 1559639172 LOC: RA566.7.F736 2003

This information was last verified on 5/21/08

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	Link Between Sprawl and Obesity EBN: Newsbrief - February 2004		Sprawl Linked to Chronic Health Problems EBN: What's Happening - November 2004
	Sprawl and Health: Are Modern Land-Use Patterns Making Us Sick? EBN: Feature - April 2002

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