Books by Lawrence Frank

  • Health and Community Design
    Health and Community Design Lawrence Frank

    Jazz on the river

    Health and Community Design

    The Impact Of The Built Environment On Physical Activity

    Lawrence Frank

    Health and Community Design is a comprehensive examination of how the built environment encourages or discourages physical activity, drawing together insights from a range of research on the ...

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  • Urban Sprawl and Public Health
    Urban Sprawl and Public Health Howard Frumkin

    Jazz on the river

    Urban Sprawl and Public Health

    Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities

    Howard Frumkin

    In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does ...

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About the Author

Larry Frank is Bombadier Chair in Sustainable Transportation Systems at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. He recently left the Georgia Institute of Technology where he was an assistant professor in the City Planning Program. He is a registered landscape architect and holds a master in Civil Engineering Transportation Planning and a Ph.D. in Urban Design and Planning from the University of Washington.