Posted in Community, Health, Housing Development, Planning, Policy, tagged Biking, boise, Building Healthy Places, Climate Change, Community, Health, Public Policy, Streets, Transportation, walkability on May 10, 2016|
What’s LOVE got to do with roads and building healthy communities? Well according to Dr. Richard Jackson and Gary Toth love plays an important role. This is part two of our conversation with these national experts on creating places that people want to be and attacking some of America’s health and environmental issues through collaboration on designing healthy communities.
Posted in Community, Health, Planning, Policy, tagged boise, Community, Health, healthcare, Sustainability, Transportation on May 3, 2016|
A pediatrician and a transportation engineer walk into a bar…do they hit it off or do they blame each other for ruining the health of our society?
This is part one of this conversation between two very passionate and knowledgeable advocates for building healthy communities who come from very different backgrounds. We discuss the history of transportation planning and town and city building, based mostly around the convenience of automobiles, that has led our country (in part) to a massive health epidemic- namely diabetes. Dr. Richard Jackson has literally written the book about “building healthy communities” and was the host of the PBS series Designing Healthy Communities. Gary Toth with the Project for Public Spaces is a transportation engineer with decades of experience in that profession and in working with communities across the country to plan and implement multi-modal transportation projects and create great places for people. Both have been guests on the show before, but this time they go head to head!
Building A Greener Idaho 