The Change Mariner

Urban Planning and Obesity

OregonLive.com:

Further bolstering the argument, the advocacy group Smart Growth America has released a study of more than 200,000 people living in 448 counties that links urban sprawl with obesity, high blood pressure and lack of regular exercise.

Portland has long been the darling of so-called "New Urbanist" advocates of mass transit, denser neighborhoods and strict design controls to promote walking. But it now may find itself at the forefront of a movement by public health advocates to consider -- or actually reconsider -- urban planning.

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