Death By Suburbs

1 August 2002 - 1:00pm

Public health experts have uncovered a more pernicious threat to Americans' health and safety -- the suburbs.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and university public-health departments, developers are forcing tens of millions of unwitting Americans into dangerous suburban developments that isolate us from our neighbors, stress us out, make us fat, kill pedestrians, and fill our air with auto-generated smog. Here Reason Senior Fellow Joel Schwartz shows that our nation's health experts have the facts wrong on virtually every claim they make about suburban living and health.

Source: Reason Public Policy Institute, August 1, 2002
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