Lawrence D. Brown is professor of health policy and management in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He is the author of Politics and Health Care Organization: HMOs as Federal Policy (1983) and coauthor of The Private Abuse of the Public Interest: Market Myths and Policy Muddles (2008) and has published widely on health care policy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Wilkes-Barre: Active Living on the Trail to Recovery2. Louisville: The Politics of Piecemeal Progress3. Albuquerque: Reshaping a Cultural Landscape4. Sacramento: Active Living as a Breath of Fresh Air5. New York City: Flourishing at the Margins of Policy6. Evaluation Meets Implementation: The Struggle for the RealConclusion: Active Living and Beyond: Bringing Implementation Back Into Health PromotionNotesReferencesIndex

In the lively, elegant, and finely crafted Political Exercise, Lawrence D. Brown begins with a simple and completely uncontroversial idea: active living is a key to health and happiness. And yet it’s devilishly hard to configure cities in a way that promotes this idea. In the little steps toward active living taken in five cities, Brown finds lessons, cautions, and tempered success. An enjoyable and very readable book with lessons and advice for urbanists, policy analysts, health care specialists, and reformers.

Lawrence D. Brown is professor of health policy and management in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He is the author of Politics and Health Care Organization: HMOs as Federal Policy (1983) and coauthor of The Private Abuse of the Public Interest: Market Myths and Policy Muddles (2008) and has published widely on health care policy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Wilkes-Barre: Active Living on the Trail to Recovery2. Louisville: The Politics of Piecemeal Progress3. Albuquerque: Reshaping a Cultural Landscape4. Sacramento: Active Living as a Breath of Fresh Air5. New York City: Flourishing at the Margins of Policy6. Evaluation Meets Implementation: The Struggle for the RealConclusion: Active Living and Beyond: Bringing Implementation Back Into Health PromotionNotesReferencesIndex

In the lively, elegant, and finely crafted Political Exercise, Lawrence D. Brown begins with a simple and completely uncontroversial idea: active living is a key to health and happiness. And yet it’s devilishly hard to configure cities in a way that promotes this idea. In the little steps toward active living taken in five cities, Brown finds lessons, cautions, and tempered success. An enjoyable and very readable book with lessons and advice for urbanists, policy analysts, health care specialists, and reformers.

Lawrence D. Brown is professor of health policy and management in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He is the author of Politics and Health Care Organization: HMOs as Federal Policy (1983) and coauthor of The Private Abuse of the Public Interest: Market Myths and Policy Muddles (2008) and has published widely on health care policy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Wilkes-Barre: Active Living on the Trail to Recovery2. Louisville: The Politics of Piecemeal Progress3. Albuquerque: Reshaping a Cultural Landscape4. Sacramento: Active Living as a Breath of Fresh Air5. New York City: Flourishing at the Margins of Policy6. Evaluation Meets Implementation: The Struggle for the RealConclusion: Active Living and Beyond: Bringing Implementation Back Into Health PromotionNotesReferencesIndex

In the lively, elegant, and finely crafted Political Exercise, Lawrence D. Brown begins with a simple and completely uncontroversial idea: active living is a key to health and happiness. And yet it’s devilishly hard to configure cities in a way that promotes this idea. In the little steps toward active living taken in five cities, Brown finds lessons, cautions, and tempered success. An enjoyable and very readable book with lessons and advice for urbanists, policy analysts, health care specialists, and reformers.