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Healthy Cities: The Intersection of Urban Planning, Law, and Health

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Here, as in some of his other works, Kushner explains how American transportation and planning policies encourage automobile-dependent development, and how some European cities do things differently.

What's different about this book is Kushner's focus on health issues. He argues that automobile dependence not only increases the likelihood of sedentary (and thus unhealthy) lifestyles, but also increases injuries and deaths from car crashes, as well as disease from air pollution.

The best part of this little book is the footnotes and bibliography. Although this book is too short to provide an enormous amount of detail, it gives you the tools to find more information.

[Full disclosure: I know the author and think of him as kind of a mentor, so my rating isn't exactly impartial].