Time to Think of Public Health in Planning

"Instead of discouraging healthy behavior -- some Utah cities don't require sidewalks and officially disdain bicycle lanes -- she says it's time they recognize they are on the front lines of making Utahns fit or fat.

So the professor, who teaches both planning and health, undertook a six-month-long effort to survey Utah cities' ordinances to see whether they promote healthy behaviors such as walking, biking and eating nutritious food."