Healing Medical Districts
18 October 2006 - 11:00am
Memphis and Miami may be leading the charge to rethinking medical districts with New Urbanism.
"It's hard to think of any city in the US that has made its medical district a place where people really want to be. Even though medicine and health care are the nation's biggest growth industry, accounting for 16 percent of America’s gross domestic product, and even though 1.7 million jobs have been created in this field since 2001 — more than in any other sector of the US economy — there have been few efforts to capitalize on the urban design potential of hospitals and health-related institutions. That may finally be starting to change."
Source:
New Urban News, October 17, 2006
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