Urban River Parkways as Routes to Health.  An Olmsted Legacy Reviving from 20th Century Coma

Jackson, Richard J.

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Urban River Parkways as Routes to Health. An Olmsted Legacy Reviving from 20th Century Coma

dc.contributor.author	Jackson, Richard J.
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	University of California, Los Angeles. School of Public Health	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-06-17T12:52:57Z
dc.date.available	2014-06-17T12:52:57Z
dc.date.issued	2014-06-02
dc.description	Presented at the Frederick Law Olmsted Symposium on June 2, 2014 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.	en_US
dc.description	Richard J. Jackson is Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. A pediatrician, he has served in many leadership positions in both environmental health and infectious disease with the California Health Department, including the highest as the State Health Officer. For nine years he was Director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta and received the Presidential Distinguished Service award. In October, 2011 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. While in California he helped establish the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program and state and national laws to reduce risks from pesticides, especially to farm workers and to children. While at CDC he established the national asthma epidemiology and control program, oversaw the childhood lead poisoning prevention program, and instituted the federal effort to “biomonitor” chemical levels in the US population. He has received the Breast Cancer Fund’s Hero Award, as well as Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Public Health Law Association, and the New Partners for Smart Growth. In October, 2012 he received the John Heinz Award for Leadership in the Environment. In fall of 2013 he was the Tisch Distinguished Public Health Fellow at Roosevelt House in Manhattan. Dick Jackson lectures and speaks on many issues, particularly those related to built environment and health. He co-authored two Island Press Books: Urban Sprawl and Public Health in 2004 and Making Healthy Places in 2011. 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 has served on many environmental and health boards, as well as the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects. He is an elected honorary member of both the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Landscape Architects.
dc.description	Runtime: 27:26 minutes
dc.description.abstract	This symposium is a celebration of the creation of the Frederick Law Olmsted Chair in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. It serves as a special opportunity to gather in one place leading experts in the area of sustainable urban infrastructure for a discussion of state of the art research and practice as it relates to the theme of this unique Endowed Chair. Each speaker will touch upon topics that are different, yet complementary in the following thematic areas: Public Health, Urban Ecology, Transportation, Risk & Resilience, and Public Policy.	en_US
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dc.format.extent	27:26 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/51998
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Frederick Law Olmsted Symposium
dc.subject	Olmsted symposium	en_US
dc.title	Urban River Parkways as Routes to Health. An Olmsted Legacy Reviving from 20th Century Coma	en_US
dc.title.alternative	The Frederick Law Olmsted Symposium (2014)
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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