New Urbanism: Addressing a Great Threat to Health and Justice

Check out this video from our friends Chris Elisara and John Paget; their award winning piece on The New Urbanism that received top honors from from the Congress for New Urbanism.



More on this from Rusty Pritchard. He writes:

The effect of the built environment on our bodies is not just felt through violent encounters with cars. Because we have created so many unwalkable, unlivable communities, Americans of all ages have grown heavier by degrees in the last 40 years. We are trained by the diet and exercise industries to think of the obesity epidemic as the result of individual gluttony or sloth, or to excuse it as a genetic predisposition. But America’s obesity problem will not be cured by diet or gym membership: the real problem is a lack of healthy environments that promote routine physical activity—walking as a way of life.