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Public Health Officer Speaks Against Planning And Obesity

Posted by: David Gest
Thanks to: David Gest
9 April 2005 - 9:00am

Richard Jackson says that planning is geared too much toward driving convenience.

"The theme of Jackson's speech [in California's Central Valley] was that planning, and by extension society, is geared too much for driving convenience, eating fatty foods and discouraging walking." Jackson claimed that "California paves or builds more than 400 acres a day, and the number of miles the average state resident drives annually has doubled, to more than 9,000, in the last 20 years." He called for an increased role for county health officers in land use planning, in order to ensure the creation of more walkable communities.

Full Story: State health expert: Urban planning key to better health
Source: Lodi News-Sentinel, April 6, 2005
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Planners, architects, artists, and other community members can make the exploratory walk a key tool in re-making places, stemming from the emotions and atmospheres perceived by people who live there or visit them, and plan outward from the experiential, toward trajectories, shapes, and physical structures.
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