How urban design affects our health

Behavioral psychologist James Sallis, being interviewed by Ivan Semeniuk for the Globe and Mail:

Throughout our whole history, people have walked for transportation. We’ve deleted that. We’ve designed that feature out of the world for many, many people and we now have the evidence that our planning and community design decisions and our transportation decisions are reducing activity and contributing to chronic diseases.

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