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Designing Healthy Communities volume 2
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English
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In this episode, Dr. Richard Jackson investigates the link between the obesity epidemic and the Type-2 Diabetes epidemic that's sweeping the United States that has been amplified by the urban sprawl fueled by car dependency. To prevent disease through better urban planning, Boulder, Colorado has redesigned the city to make bicycles a safe alternative form of transportation. Two Denver, Colorado suburbs have transformed dead malls into mixed-use and...
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Designing Healthy Communities volume 1
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English
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When the United States industry and manufacturing markets collapsed or went elsewhere, communities all over the country were left with the task of redefining themselves for a new paradigm. This video features the issues that these communities faced and how the individuals within them came together to implement more sustainable practices in order to allow future generations to enjoy all the beauty the area has to offer.
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Designing Healthy Communities volume 1
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English
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Dr. Jackson searches past and present America for healthy, sustainable communities of all sizes and shapes that can serve as models for the rest of the nation. His journey takes him to Roseto, Pennsylvania, Prairie Crossing, Illinois, New York City, New York, Charleston, South Carolina, and the forgotten 1960s urban renewal project of Lafayette Park in Detroit, Michigan, the brainchild of four men, including visionary architect, Mies van der Rohe....
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Designing Healthy Communities volume 2
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English
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Dr. Jackson believes that it's every citizen's right to live in a clean, healthy environment. But right now, not everyone lives in an environment like that. Many low-income neighborhoods that were built near big transportation hubs and struggling industrial cities are full of citizens denied that right: in Oakland, a morbidly obese grandmother struggles to raise seven grandchildren, all of whom have asthma as a result of living near the port; in the...
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