Williamsburg Regional Library

Designing Healthy Communities: Social Policy in Concrete

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Designing Healthy Communities: Social Policy in Concrete
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Designing Healthy Communities: Social Policy in Concrete
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923795761
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Originally produced by Media Policy Center in 2012
Runtime
56
Summary
Dr. Jackson believes it is every citizen's right to live in a clean, healthy environment. This isn't the case for many low-income neighborhoods, built near big transportation hubs and struggling industrial cities like Oakland, CA and Detroit, MI. We meet a morbidly obese grandmother struggling to raise seven grandchildren, all of whom have asthma as a result of living near the Port of Oakland. The city of Detroit resembles an abandoned war zone. Yet, hope blossoms in both. Health officials, community activists and a new breed of young Urban Pioneers are working to fix their cities by transforming urban wilderness and food deserts into inspirational new models for other troubled communities
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