As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and
obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment
the way our cities and towns are developed contributes to the
epidemic rates of these diseases. It is unlikely that those who
planned and developed these places envisioned these situations.
Public health, community development planning, and other fields
influencing the built environment have operated in isolation for
much of recent history, with the result being places that public
health advocates have labelled, designed for disease . The sad
irony of this is that planning and public health arose together, in
response to the need to create health standards, zoning and
building codes to combat the infectious diseases that were
prevalent in the industrializing cities of late nineteenth and
early twentieth century America. In recent years, the dramatic rise
in chronic disease rates in cities and towns has begun to bring
public health and planning back together to promote development
pattern and policies facilitating physical activity and neighbourly
interactions as antidotes. In this book, a number of such community
development efforts are highlighted, bringing attention to the need
to coordinate planning, community development and health
policy.
This book was originally published as a special issue of
Community Development.
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