Jeff Speck's "The Walkable City"

Hello my fellow students of health!

I came across this TED talk mere hours after our discussion of the five "emerging approaches" from last week's reading from the Prevention Institute (built environment, sustainable agriculture, economic development, norms change, and community-based participatory efforts).

The video explores the concept of the built environment in the United States and how it has changed dramatically in the last few decades. It covers a lot of the points that we brought up in our class discussion, and most importantly, it mentions Portland! If you have 17 minutes to spare, it is definitely worth a watch. Speck's new book, "The Walkable City," also sounds great!

Jeff Speck: The Walkable City