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Frank LD Engelke PO Schmid TL . Health and Community Design. Washington, DC: Island Press; 2003.

Frumkin H Frank LD Jackson R . Urban Sprawl and Public Health. Washington, DC: Island Press; 2004.

Perdue WC Gostin LO Stone LA . Public health and the built environment: Historical, empirical, and theoretical foundations for an expanded role. J Law Med Ethics. 2003;31:557–566.

See also the guest editorials and articles in special issues: Am J Public Health September 2003 and April 2004; J Urban Health December 2003; Am J Health Promot September/October 2003; Am J Prev Med August 2002.

Northridge ME Sclar ED Biswas P . Sorting out the connections between built environment and health: A conceptual framework for navigating pathways and planning healthy cities. J Urban Health. 2003;80:556–568.

Dannenberg AL Jackson RJ Frumkin H . The impact of community design and land-use choices on public health: A scientific research agenda. Am J Public Health. 2003;93:1500–1508.

One can cite numerous connections between the fields in housing and neighborhood planning, community participation in planning, or health services planning as noted in the following references. Yet an established relationship between public health and planning professionals and their professional organizations is only beginning to emerge. American Public Health Association, Committee on the Hygiene of Housing. Planning the Neighborhood. Chicago, IL: APHA, 1960, which drew from earlier APHA publications in 1946 and 1950. Corburn J . Confronting the challenges in reconnecting urban planning and public health. Am J Public Health. 2004;94:541–546. Loewenthal NH Burby RJ . Health Care in New Communities. Cambridge, Mass: Ballinger; 1976. Burby RJ Strong DE . Coping with chemicals: Blacks, whites and industrial pollution. J Am Plann Assoc. 1997;63:569–480.

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See Handy SL Boarnet MG Ewing R Killingsworth RE . How the built environment affects physical activity: Views from urban planning. Am J Prev Med. 2002;23:64–73.

Cervero R Duncan M . Walking, bicycling, and urban landscapes: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay area. Am J Public Health. 2003;93:1478–1483.

Savitch HV . How suburban sprawl shapes human well-being. J Urban Health. 2003;80:590–607.

An inclusive listing of required elements is in Meck S. Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change. 2 vol. Chicago, Ill: American Planning Association; 2002:chap 7.

Barton H Tsourou C . Healthy Urban Planning. Independence, Ky: Spoon Press; 2001.

Godschalk DR . Land use planning challenges: Coping with conflicts in visions of sustainable development and livable communities. J Am Plann Assoc. 2004;70:5–13.

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This discussion of land use planning relies primarily on Berke P Godschalk DR Kaiser EJ , with Rodriguez D . Urban Land Use Planning. 5th ed. Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press; 2005.

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Kaiser EJ Godschalk DR . Development planning. In: Hoch CJ Dalton LC So FS , eds. The Practice of Local Government Planning. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: International City/County Management Association; 2000:141–169.

Weiner E . Urban Transportation Planning in the US: An Historical Overview. Rev exp ed. Westport, Conn: Praeger; 1999.

Rodriguez D Joo J . The relationship between non-motorized travel behavior and the local physical environment. Transportation Res Part D Transport Environment. 2004;9:151–173.

Berke P Godschalk DR Kaiser EJ Rodriguez D . Urban Land Use Planning. 5th ed. Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press; forthcoming 2005:chap 8. Daniel Rodriguez authored this chapter.

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Katz P . Form first: The new urbanist alternative to conventional zoning. Plann Magazine. 2004;70:16–21.

Schiffman I . Alternative Techniques for Managing Smart Growth. 2nd ed. Berkeley, Calif: Berkeley Public Policy Press; 2001.

Based on Lamont W. Subdivision regulation and land conversion. In: So FS Stollman I Beal F Arnold DS , eds. The Practice of Local Government Planning. Washington, DC: International City Management Association; 1979:389–415.

Coon JA Damsky SW . All You Ever Wanted to Know About Zoning. 2nd ed. Albany, NY: New York Planning Federation; 1993.

Malizia E . Viewpoint. Planning Magazine. April 2004: 46.

Roof K . The role of local public health agencies in land use planning and community design. 2004. 16-page NACCHO report. A summary is available as a power-point presentation: www.naccho.org/general922.cfm (click on same title as report).

This project is reported at www.naccho.org/project84.cfm and in the Spring 2003 issue of the NACCHO Exchange (volume 2, issue 1). Available through this website is the power-point presentation by Marya Morris, Land-Use Planning (and its Relationship to Public Health) to the NACCHO Environmental Health Advisory Committee, Albuquerque, NM, October 22, 2003.

Glandon R. Land use and public health. NACCHO Exchange. 2003;2:1–5.

Robert Glandon telephone interview, August 3, 2004, and subsequent e-mail correspondence.

MacLennan C Brown W . “Local Public Health Agencies' Role in Land Use Planning: Is It Time for a New Model?” was circulated electronically to NACCHO members with the land use planning checklist described in the next end-note.

See www.naccho.org/general922.cfm, “Additional Resources: Toolbox.”

Carol MacLennan and Ronald Hovland telephone interview, September 29, 2004, and subsequent e-mail correspondence with MacLennan.

Rajiv Bhatia telephone interview, October 7, 2004, and subsequent e-mail correspondence.

Although the emphasis here is on chronic disease prevention, infectious diseases remain important (West Nile virus, SARS, HIV) and especially plague low-income populations living in deteriorated urban areas. See Freudenberg N. Time for a national agenda to improve the health of urban populations. Am J Public Health. 2000;90:837–840. Bashir SA . Home is where the harm is: Inadequate housing as a public health crisis. Am J Public Health. 2002;92:733–738. Powell LM Slater S Chaloupka FJ . The relationship between community physical activity settings and race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Evid Based Prev Med. 2004;1:135–144.

Institute of Medicine. The Future of Public Health. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 1988.

Geronimus AT . To mitigate, resist, or undo: Addressing structural influences on the health of urban populations. Am J Public Health. 2000;90:867–872. See p 868.

See www.who.dk/document/PAE/Gothenburgpaper.pdf.

See www.hiagateway.org.uk, www.naccho.org/general1126.cfm, and Cole BL Wilhelm M Long PV . Prospects for health impact assessment in the United States: New and improved environmental impact assessment or something different? J Health Polit Policy Law. 2004;29:1153–1186.

Jimmy Newkirk (Division of Public Health, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services) telephone interview, October 4, 2004.