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Based on worldwide public health data, this report lays out the premise for building healthy places and illuminates the role of the real estate and development

Health and Community Design is a comprehensive examination of how the built environment encourages or discourages physical activity, drawing together insights f

This concise volume analyzes the potential for the workplace environment—where so many people spend so much of their day—to improve workers’ capacity for

The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the