In a powerful new book, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Investigator Jason Corburn, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, examines why most American cities are unable to offer healthy surroundings to all their residents. Toward the Healthy City: People, Places and the Politics of Urban Planning uses success stories, past and present, to identify what city planners, health departments, activists and residents themselves can do to improve the physically and socially toxic environments that are too common in our cities today.  Learn more about the book http://www.rwjf.org/humancapital/product.jsp?id=52309

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