Livable Communities: Just What the Doctor Ordered
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has just adopted a ground-breaking policy statement on the link between how we build communities and the health of the children in those communities.
Their findings support the efforts of Futurewise to reduce sprawling development patterns and to promote more compact communities that allow for recreation, walking, and biking.
Richard Jackson, Professor and Chair, Environmental Health Sciences UCLA School of Public Health, says "It is, to my knowledge, the first time a health organization has made such an authoritative and direct statement about the healthfulness or hazards of the design of communities that children grow up in."
Futurewise applauds the American Academy of Pediatrics for identifying how the built environment has a tremendous impact on the health of our children. Click here to read the full statement.