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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 action plan for a healthier city.The book analyzes Nashville, Tennessee, using the ""transect,"" an urban planning model central to the New Urbanist and smart growth movements. By considering the seven ""transect zones""-natural, rural, suburban, urban, downtown, centers, and districts-the book provides a diagnosis of the health-promoting and health-defeating aspects of each.Strategies tailored to each zone focus on six built environment factors that impact health: neighborhood design and development, transportation, walkability and pedestrian safety, food resources, housing, and open space and parks. Individual chapters include case studies of specific neighborhoods, contributions by experts, infographics, site photographs, and detailed before-and-after visualizations.Shaping the Healthy Community presents real-world facts, policy recommendations, and design strategies to enable health and planning professionals, developers and designers, educators and community organizations to build places in which healthy practices can be part of daily life.Like The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City, this book is a collaboration of the Nashville Civic Design Center, Vanderbilt University Creative Services, and Vanderbilt University Press. Explores the relationships between the built environment and public health and presents an action plan for a healthier city. The book analyses Nashville, Tennessee, using the transect, an urban planning model central to the New Urbanist and smart growth movements. By considering the seven transect zones the book provides a diagnosis of the health-promoting and health-defeating aspects of each. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Condition: New. Diagnosing the built environment for healthy living Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: MB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 279 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1361. . 2015. Illustrated. paperback. . . . .

Condition: New. Diagnosing the built environment for healthy living Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: MB; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 279 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1361. . 2015. Illustrated. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1987 OUP hardcover reprint edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: 1. Renaissance Patronage: An Introductory Essay (F. W. Kent, with Patricia Simons) 2. Taking Patronage Seriously: Mediterranean Values and Renaissance Society (Ronald Weissman) 3. Friendship and Patronage in Renaissance Europe (Guy Fitch Lytle) 4. The Dynamic of Power in Cosimo de' Medici's Florence (Dale Kent) 5. Ties of Neighbourhood and Patronage in Quattrocento Florence (F. W. Kent) 6. Neighbourhood Government in Malatesta Cesena (Ian Robertson) 7. Liturgy and Patronage in San Lorenzo, Florence, 1350-1650 (Robert Gaston) 8. The Medici and the Savonarolans, 1512-1527: The Limitations of Personal Government and of the Medicean Patronage System (Lorenzo Polizzotto) 9. The Empire of Things: Consumer Demand in Renaissance Italy (Richard Goldthwaite) 10. Patronage in the Circle of the Carrara Family: Padua, 1337-1405 (Margaret Plant) 11. Palla Strozzi's Patronage and Pre-Medicean Florence (Heather Gregory) 12. Patronage in the Tornaquinci Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence (Patricia Simons) 13. The Priority of the Architect: Alberti on Architects and Patrons (John Oppel) 14. Patronage and Diplomacy: The North Italian Residences of the Emperor Charles V (William Eisler) 15. Patterns of Patronage: Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and the Setta of Sculptors (Till Verellen) 16. Patronage and the Production of History: The Case of Quattrocento Milan (Gary Ianziti) 17. Marx and the Study of Patronage in the Renaissance (Margaret Rose). …

Condition: New. Explores the relationships between the built environment and public health and presents an action plan for a healthier city. The book analyses Nashville, Tennessee, using the transect , an urban planning model central to the New Urbanist and smart growth m.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 action plan for a healthier city.The book analyzes Nashville, Tennessee, using the ""transect,"" an urban planning model central to the New Urbanist and smart growth movements. By considering the seven ""transect zones""-natural, rural, suburban, urban, downtown, centers, and districts-the book provides a diagnosis of the health-promoting and health-defeating aspects of each.Strategies tailored to each zone focus on six built environment factors that impact health: neighborhood design and development, transportation, walkability and pedestrian safety, food resources, housing, and open space and parks. Individual chapters include case studies of specific neighborhoods, contributions by experts, infographics, site photographs, and detailed before-and-after visualizations.Shaping the Healthy Community presents real-world facts, policy recommendations, and design strategies to enable health and planning professionals, developers and designers, educators and community organizations to build places in which healthy practices can be part of daily life.Like The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City, this book is a collaboration of the Nashville Civic Design Center, Vanderbilt University Creative Services, and Vanderbilt University Press. Explores the relationships between the built environment and public health and presents an action plan for a healthier city. The book analyses Nashville, Tennessee, using the transect, an urban planning model central to the New Urbanist and smart growth movements. By considering the seven transect zones the book provides a diagnosis of the health-promoting and health-defeating aspects of each. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

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