POLITICAL SCIENCE
80 Pages, 8.5 x 11
Formats: Paperback
Paperback, $24.95 (US $24.95) (CA $27.95)
Publication Date: November 2013
ISBN 9780874202830
Distilling lessons learned from three health-focused Urban Land Institute advisory services panels in Colorado, as well as other findings on public health gleaned from a workshop with leading experts, this publication includes up-to-the-minute thinking on how to design and build healthy communities. It serves as a tool for public officials, development professionals, and others to help lay out the key elements that make a community more conducive to activity and that encourage better eating and healthier living.
Theodore Thoerig is an urban development and real estate writer. He is the author of Awards for Excellence: Winning Projects 2010 and Best Practices in Development: ULI Award Winning Projects 2009, and coauthor of Housing America's Workforce. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.