Planning Healthy & Child-Friendly Communities

[i]48th IMCL Conference [/i] October 17-21, 2010 Charleston, SC, USA The conference will focus on how to plan healthy communities, and how to improve children's health and development by improving the built environment. The conference will bring together 350-400 delegates - elected officials, practitioners and scholars in planning, public health, urban design, landscape architecture, transportation planning, pediatrics, child development, land use development and architecture from around the world to present health effects of the built/natural environment, health impact assessment tools, guidelines for planning healthy neighborhoods, and examples of cutting-edge improvements in the way developers build, and how cities reshape existing neighborhoods. For more information: http://www.LivableCities.org