Designing Healthy Communities Complete DVD Series - AssistedLivingOnline.com
A provocative and challenging new 4-hour public television series (2012), Designing Healthy Communities, hosted by celebrated author and teacher Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, is now available on this...
View ArticleDesigning Healthy Communities – Companion Book - AssistedLivingOnline.com
The Companion book to the “Designing Healthy Communities” video series highlights how we design the built environment, and its potential for addressing and preventing many of the nation’s devastating...
View ArticleEpisode 1: Retrofitting Suburbia - AssistedLivingOnline.com
Dr. Richard Jackson MD MPH, investigates the link between our nation’s obesity and Type 2 Diabetes epidemic with urban sprawl fueled by car dependency. To prevent disease through better urban...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Newest Parks Are Underwater - AssistedLivingOnline.com
You normally think of parks as being places to walk or ride around. But on January 1, Southern California will celebrate the grand opening of a series of underwater parks, or “marine protected areas,”...
View ArticleWalkability Raises Housing Values, Study Finds - AssistedLivingOnline.com
Can you walk to stores, schools and a park from your home? If so, your house or condo may be worth substantially more than those in more isolated, pedestrian-hostile neighborhoods. That’s the finding...
View ArticleTown Hall Meetings Coming Soon! - AssistedLivingOnline.com
How can your community be designed to be healthier? Public involvement is the key — and a series of DHC Town Hall Meetings will bring together community leaders in cities across the nation to discuss...
View ArticleDr. Jackson featured in US News & World Report article -...
Dr. Richard Jackson, host of MPC’s Designing Healthy Communities, was recently featured in US News & World Report. The article, “Can ‘New Urbanism’ Bring Health to Your Neighborhood?” highlights...
View ArticleThe “Grave Health Risks” of Poor Urban Design - AssistedLivingOnline.com
Dr. Jackson recently co-wrote an article appearing in The Atlantic Cities. Writing with Michael Mehaffy, Dr. Jackson assesses the roots of the US obesity epidemic, and argues the same message that is...
View ArticleStatewide tour in Oregon - AssistedLivingOnline.com
In June, Dr. Jackson partnered with the Education and Outreach Committee of the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association, 1000 Friends of Oregon, the Oregon Environmental Council, and the...
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