Walkable Neighborhoods: The Link between Public Health, Urban Design, and Transportation

• Author: Oka, Koichiro; Koohsari, Mohammad Javad
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (234 p.)

It is now widely recognized that individual-based motivational interventions alone are not sufficient to address the global pandemic of physical inactivity (lack of exercise and too much sitting time). There has been a growing interest in the effect the physically built environment can have on peopl...