Cities' Impact on Health
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This mismatch between humans and our habitat shouldn’t come as a surprise, says architect Jan Gehl

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As humanity has shifted its center of gravity to cities, there’s been an alarming rise in illnesses such as depression, cancer, and diabetes.
Jane Jacobs and Jan Gehl began highlighting the inhuman way our cities were being shaped, with boring constructions, barren spaces and brutal expressways.
But the availability of sophisticated new brain-mapping and behavioral study techniques means it is getting much harder for the construction industry to keep ignoring the responses of millions of people to places it has created.
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