Greetings TRB H+T Friends,
This webinar may be of interest to you and your networks.
Eloisa
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October 30 Webinar: Designing and Planning for Healthy Cities
On Thursday, October 30, the Security & Sustainability Forum and the
American Public Health Association will co-host a webinar featuring Tim
Beatley of the University of Virginia and Richard Jackson of UCLA
discussing creating cities that are compelling and healthy places to live,
work, and play.
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Register here:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/949150209
Background: The environment that we construct affects both humans and our
natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy
places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built.
However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we
have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built
environments. Join SSF on October 30th in a rare opportunity to listen in
on a conversation between two of the thought leaders in public health and
urban planning and design -- UCLA Professor Richard Jackson co-author of
Urban Sprawl and Public Health and co-editor of Making Healthy Places; and
Tim Beatley of the University of Virginia and author of Biophilic Cities
and Blue Urbanism plus several other books on urban and environmental
planning.
The session will be moderated by Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director
of the American Pubic Health Association, which is co-producing the webinar.