Posts Tagged ‘childhood’
Perspective Health and Urban Living
Posted in urban living
Christopher Dye
The majority of people now live in urban areas and will do so for the foreseeable future. As a force in the demographic and health transition, urbanization is associated with falling birth and death rates and with the shift in burden of illness from acute childhood infections to chronic, noncommunicable diseases of adults.
Mayan calendar and 2012 prophecy. The third probable scenario
Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: adults, better health, birth, birth and death, burden, calendar, childhood, childhood infections, Christopher Dye, counterparts, death, death rates, dye, evidence, force, foreseeable future, future, Geneva, governance, health, health transition, illness, inhabitants, majority, mayan calendar, noncommunicable diseases, obstacles, organization, prophecy, scenario, shift, society, Subject, Switzerland, transition, Urban, urban areas, urban health, urbanization, world, world health organization
Get to Know New Urbanist Communities
Posted in urban living
These small towns offer walkability and a close-knit atmosphere
In 1979, builder and developer Robert Davis founded the town of Seaside, Fla. on 80 acres of land he inherited from his grandfather. He hoped the new development would recapture the idyllic feeling of his childhood vacations by the Florida shore. Seaside is now cited as the first example of new urbanism, a design movement that strives to create walkable, sustainable communities with a diverse range of housing and jobs. As people react to the suburban sprawl prevalent in the United States, more new urban towns are cropping up around the country. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 20th centuries, atmosphere, builder, bungalow style homes, childhood, country, courtesy, design, developer, development, example, feeling, Fla., Florida, florida shore, grandfather, housing, jobs, land, Movement, New, new urbanism, Photo, photo courtesy, range, Robert Davis, Seaside, shore, solution, sprawl, Steven Brooke, Studios, suburban sprawl, sustainable communities, town, town atmosphere, United States, Urbanism, vacations, walkability