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Is your city making you fat? How urban planning can address the obesity epidemic

  • Written by John Rennie Short, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Ohio City Farm in Cleveland provides low-cost land, shared facilities and technical assistance to support entrepreneurial farmers.Horticulture Group/Flickr, CC BY

New disease outbreaks, like the novel coronavirus that recently emerged in China’s Hubei province, generate headlines and attention. Meanwhile, however, Americans face a slower...

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