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Shaping the Healthy Community: The Nashville Plan
Gaston, Gary, Kreyling, Christine
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Description for Shaping the Healthy Community: The Nashville Plan
Paperback. Diagnosing the built environment for healthy living Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: MB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 279 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1361.
The shape we give to our city, in turn, shapes us. The form that Americans began to give to their cities and suburbs in the years following World War II has molded an increasingly underactive, overweight population subject to a variety of preventable diseases, as well as an environment with degraded air and water quality. Shaping the Healthy Community explores the relationships between the built environment and public health and presents an action plan for a healthier city.
The book analyzes Nashville, Tennessee, using the ""transect,"" an urban planning model central to the New Urbanist and smart growth movements. ... Read more
The shape we give to our city, in turn, shapes us. The form that Americans began to give to their cities and suburbs in the years following World War II has molded an increasingly underactive, overweight population subject to a variety of preventable diseases, as well as an environment with degraded air and water quality. Shaping the Healthy Community explores the relationships between the built environment and public health and presents an action plan for a healthier city.
The book analyzes Nashville, Tennessee, using the ""transect,"" an urban planning model central to the New Urbanist and smart growth movements. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826520951
SKU
V9780826520951
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Ref
99-15
About Gaston, Gary, Kreyling, Christine
Gary Gaston, Director of the Nashville Civic Design Center, is a lecturer with the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design, USA. He is co-author of Moving Tennessee Forward: Models for Connecting Communities and executive producer of the 2012 NEA-funded documentary film Design Your Neighborhood. Christine Kreyling is the author of The Plan of Nashville and co-author of ... Read more
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