Title: APHA 132 Built Environment Institute II
Author:
Section/SPIG: Environment
Issue Date:
Identifying approaches for building sustainable environments that actively improve human health
The Built Environment Institute, in its second year, is continuing its pursuit of identifying approaches for building sustainable environments that actively improve human health. This year's sessions will: explore the connections between the built environment and obesity; gain perspectives on designing healthy futures; investigate transportation issues and offer possible design solutions; consider a more holistic approach to sustainability in the built environment from building materials selection to creating a more healthful, less toxic built environment; school environments; and a host of other topics spanning several sessions over a very full two-day period, Nov. 8-9, 2004.
The Institute is also planning a field trip on Sunday, November 7 to one of the many planned communities surrounding the Washington, D.C. area. The historic communities of Greenbelt and Columbia Maryland are being considered. Other newer planned communities that have been constructed using new urbanist design principles, such as the Kentlands, are under consideration, as well.
The Built Environment Institute would not be possible without the generous support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For this we are grateful as this year’s program continues to develop and as we look into future