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  1. School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Howard Frumkin

  2. Healthy Community Design Initiative, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA

    Arthur M. Wendel

  3. School of Architecture, College of Design, North Carolina State University, USA

    Robin Fran Abrams

  4. Department of City &Regional Planning, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

    Emil Malizia

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Frumkin, H., Wendel, A.M., Abrams, R.F., Malizia, E. (2011). An Introduction to Healthy Places. In: Dannenberg, A.L., Frumkin, H., Jackson, R.J. (eds) Making Healthy Places. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-036-1_1

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