Designing healthy communities. Social policy in concrete / with host Richard Jackson ; executive producers & directors, Harry Wiland & Dale Bell.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Baroff, Beverly, producer, editor, author.

Bell, Dale, 1938- director, producer.

Wiland, Harry, director, producer.

Jackson, Richard, 1945- host.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental health--California--Oakland.

Environmental health.

Environmental health--Michigan--Detroit.

Environmentally induced diseases--United States.

Environmentally induced diseases.

City planning--Health aspects--United States.

City planning.

City planning--Environmental aspects--United States.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (57 minutes)

Other Title:

Social policy in concrete

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : Media Policy Center, 2011.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

data file

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.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed August 18, 2015).

OCLC:

929482027