Jason Corburn's New Blog: Healthy Cities

Check out Kason Corburn’s new Healthy Cities blog.  Livagreen.com will be subscribing to his RSS feed under the sustainable communities tab.  Jason is an Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.   He also teaches in the School of Public Health, is a member of the Global Metropolitan Studies initiative and Chair of the Executive Committee of the College of Environmental Design.  His most recent posts cites a Contra Costa Times article on how “Residents of poor East Oakland die, on average, 16 years before residents of wealthier neighborhoods in the Oakland Hills.”  indicating that to a large degree where you live and the quality of the environment “your degree of suffering and length of life.”  You can also check out his two excellent books: Towards a Healthier City and Street Science published by MIT press.