Shaping the Healthy Community: The Nashville Plan

by Christine Kreyling and Gary Gaston

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826520952
• ISBN13: 9780826520951
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.9" x 8.8"