Book chapter
The role of the changing built environment in shaping our shape
Geographies of Obesity: Environmental Understandings of the Obesity Epidemic
Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group
2010
Abstract
This quote from Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in the US state of Alabama in 1936, highlights a number of changes observed in the developed world post-World War II (WWII). In this brief passage, we read of children running unaccompanied in the street, a parent (Atticus) walking home from work, and the presence of local destinations (the post office) proximate to homes. In a few words, the quote underscores changes observed in the way we work, live, shop and commute, and speaks to the restrictions placed on children’s independent mobility in the twenty-first century.
Details
- Title
- The role of the changing built environment in shaping our shape
- Authors/Creators
- B. Giles-Corti (Author/Creator)J. Robertson-Wilson (Author/Creator)L. Wood (Author/Creator)R. Falconer (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- K. Witten (Editor)J. Pearce (Editor) - School of Geosciences
- Publication Details
- Geographies of Obesity: Environmental Understandings of the Obesity Epidemic
- Publisher
- Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group
- Identifiers
- 991005543174507891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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