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| Preface | |
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| The Author | |
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| Background and History | |
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| Introduction to the Built Environment and Health | |
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| Dimensions of the Environment | |
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| Is the Built Environment Really an Environmental Factor? | |
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| How to Evaluate the Built Environment? | |
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| Public Perceptions and Assumptions Regarding the Built Environment | |
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| Cross-Disciplinary Nature of the Study of the Built Environment | |
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| Placing the Analysis of the Built Environment into a Broader Context | |
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| Influences on the Built Environment | |
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| History | |
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| The Pre-Industrial Era | |
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| The Era of Industrialization and Urbanization: 1825-1930 | |
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| Reform Movements, New Technologies, and Changes in Urban Planning and Architecture: 1825-1930 | |
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| Later Reforms and New Initiatives 1930-1980 | |
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| The Current Era: 1980-2010 and Beyond | |
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| Community Design | |
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| Planning and Urban Design | |
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| Demographic, Economic, and Social Trends | |
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| Land Use and Planning Controls | |
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| Metropolitan Structure and Health | |
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| Transportation Policies | |
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| Current Patterns of Transportation in the United States | |
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| Automobiles and Health | |
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| Highways and Health | |
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| Mass Transit and Health | |
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| Bike Safety and Infrastructure | |
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| Walking and Health | |
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| Healthy Housing and Housing Assistance Programs | |
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| The Housing Problem | |
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| The Regulatory Framework | |
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| Infrastructure and Natural Disasters | |
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| Natural Disasters: An | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Natural Disaster Response | |
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| Environmental Media | |
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| Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality | |
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| Overview | |
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| Land Use, the Built Environment, and Air Quality | |
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| Air Pollutants | |
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| Air Pollution-Associated Health Conditions | |
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| Water | |
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| Impact of Water on Health | |
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| Infrastructure | |
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| Drinking Water | |
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| Food, Nutrition, and Food Security | |
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| Foodborne Illnesses | |
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| Food Insecurity | |
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| Environmental Effects of Farming and Food Production | |
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| Population Health | |
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| Vulnerable Populations | |
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| The Built Environment and Vulnerability | |
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| The Definition of Race | |
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| Poverty | |
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| Children and Environmental Health | |
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| The Elderly and the Built Environment | |
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| Persons with Disabilities | |
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| Mental Health, Stressors, and Health Care Environments | |
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| The Beginnings | |
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| Biophilia | |
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| The Role of Stressors and Allostatic Load | |
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| Social Capital | |
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| Theory and Historical Beginnings | |
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| Measuring Social Capital | |
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| Improving Social Capital | |
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| Environmental Justice | |
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| The Environmental Justice Movement | |
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| A History of the Environmental Justice Movement | |
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| Disproportionate Burden | |
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| Additional Limitations of Environmental Justice Actions | |
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| Lessons | |
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| Tools and Applications | |
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| Assessment Tools and Data Sources | |
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| Tools to Inform Decision Making | |
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| Information Tools | |
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| Health Policy and Programs | |
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| Public Health Interventions | |
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| Community Interventions | |
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| School-Based Interventions | |
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| Individual Level Interventions | |
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| Legal Basis for Built Environment Regulation | |
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| Inserting Health into City General Plans | |
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| Sustainability | |
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| Defining Sustainability | |
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| Sustainability and Equity | |
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| Measures of Sustainability | |
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| The Local Sustainability Movement | |
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| The Role of Environmental Design in Sustainability | |
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| Global Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |