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Designing Healthy, Livable Communities

How could better designed communities and transportation choices enable physical activity and improve both our physical and mental health?

Join us on June 21 and find out when City Club, Building a Better Bend, Commute Options, 1000 Friends of Oregon and the Oregon Chapter of American planning Association proudly presents Dr. Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA.

On June 21, Dr. Richard Jackson will discuss the link between our health and the way our communities — especially our suburbs — are designed. Obesity, asthma, diabetes and heart disease are all aggravated by the auto-centric way we live our lives today. For the first time in two centuries, children today face shorter life expectancies than their parents due to unhealthy lifestyles.  It doesn't have to be this way!

City Club once again sets the stage for engaging and more importantly, relevant discussion you will not want to miss!

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Event: Designing Healthy, Livable Communities

What: City Club of Central Oregon Forum

When: Thursday, June 21, 2012 from 11:30-1:00

Where: St. Charles Center for Health and Learning

Cost: $20 (City Club Members and 1st Time Guests) & $35 (Non-Members)

About Dr. Richard Jackson:

Jackson is Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr.

Jackson lectures and speaks on many issues, particularly those related to building environment and health. He is host of a 2012 public television series Designing Healthy Communities which links to the J Wiley & Sons book by the same name published in October, 2011. He co-authored two Island Press Books: Urban Sprawl and Public Health in 2004 and Making Healthy Places in 2011. He has served on many environmental and health boards, as well as the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects.

For more information about Dr. Jackson and the Designing for Healthy Communities project, go to: http://designinghealthycommunities.org/.

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