Mutatkar RK. Public health problems of urbanization. Social Science and Medicine. 1995;41(7): 977-81.
Vlahov D, Gibble E, Freudenberg N, Galea S. Cities and Health: History, Approaches, and Key Questions. Acad Med. 2004;79:1133-38.
Wackernagel M, Schulz NB, Deumling D, et al. Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2002;99(14):9266-71.
On ecological footprints:
Urban and Ecological Footprints. Web site of the Global Development Research Center. Plenty of links to other ecological footprint sources, including “calculators” to help compute the footprint of specific locations. http://www.gdrc.org/uem/footprints/.
Rees WE, Wackernagel M, Testemale P. Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. Vancouver: New Society Publishers; 1995.
Chambers N, Simmons C, Wackernagel M. Sharing Nature’s Interest:Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability. London: Earthscan; 2001.
On sustainable cities:
International Centre for Sustainable Cities, Vancouver. http://www.icsc.ca/.
Hardoy JE, Mitlin D, Satterthwaite D. Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World: Finding Solutions in Africa, Asia and Latin America. London: Earthscan; 2001.
On healthy cities:
CDC's Healthy Places website: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces/.
Healthy Cities International. Web site of the International Healthy Cities Foundation, based at UC Berkeley. http://www.healthycities.org.
Healthy Cities and Urban Governance. Web site of the WHO Healthy Cities initiative, based in the European regional office (Copenhagen). http://www.who.dk/healthy-cities.
On urban sprawl:
Smart Growth online. Web site of the Smart Growth Network, a public-private partnership affiliated with the US EPA. http://www.smartgrowth.org.
Smart Growth America, an advocacy group that promotes transportation and land use solutions to sprawl. http://www.smartgrowthamerica.com.
Duany A, Plater-Zyberk E, Speck J. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. New York: North Point Press; 2001.
Gillham O, Maclean AS. The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate. Washington: Island Press; 2002.
Frumkin H, Frank L, Jackson RJ. Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities. Washington: Island Press; 2004.
