Public Health

Agencies and Organizations

• Active Living By Design
• Center for Livable Communities
• The Governor's Council on Physical Fitness, Health and Sports/The Michigan Fitness Foundation
• Partners for Livable Communities

Publications

• Americans' Attitudes Toward Walking and Creating Better Walking Communities
• Gaining Weight: Michigan sprawl increases waistlines; health care costs
• Health and Smart Growth: Building Health, Promoting Active Communities
• Taming Urban Sprawl
• Why People Don't Walk and What City Planners Can Do About It

White Papers

• Funder's Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
  • Health and Smart Growth: Building Health, Promoting Active Communities
• Land Use Affects Public Health, Karen Petersmark, PhD, MPH, Michigan Department of Community Health and Risa Wilkerson, Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, Health and Sports*
• Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University (not available online)*