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.
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. -- James A. Morone, author of <i>Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal from George Washington to Donald Trump</i> Recommended. * Choice * Of interest to persons concerned with the proper design, implementation, and evaluation of public programs, especially in such policy areas as public health, green cities, and urban planning and design. * Journal of Urban Affairs *