Journal Articles

Is Support for Traditionally Designed Communities Growing? Evidence From Two National Surveys

Is Support for Traditionally Designed Communities Growing? Evidence From Two National Surveys
Many voices within the planning community have called for replacement of the dominant model of suburban development with a more traditional style of development. Traditionally designed communities, featuring a mix of residential and commercial land uses and pedestrian connections between these uses, offer many potential environmental, social, and health benefits. Adoption of policies that encourage…
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The Polls-Trends: Twenty Years of Public Opinion about Global Warming

The Polls-Trends: Twenty Years of Public Opinion about Global Warming
The Polls-Trends: Twenty Years of Public Opinion about Global Warming - Over the past 20 years, there have been dozens of news organization, academic, and nonpartisan public opinion surveys on global warming, yet there exists no authoritative summary of their collective findings. In this article, we provide a systematic review of trends in public opinion about global…
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Communication and Marketing as Tools to Cultivate the Public’s Health: A Proposed “People and Places” Framework

Communication and Marketing as Tools to Cultivate the Public’s Health: A Proposed “People and Places” Framework
Communication and marketing are rapidly becoming recognized as core functions, or core competencies, in the field of public health. Although these disciplines have fostered considerable academic inquiry, a coherent sense of precisely how these disciplines can inform the practice of public health has been slower to emerge. In this article we propose a framework – based…
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