[WATCH]: Designing Healthy and Prosperous Communities

The heavily subsidized suburban design of the American Dream is at the heart of our obesity, mortgage, and fiscal problems. Watch this live recording, in which Dr. Richard Jackson, host of the PBS-special presentation "Designing Healthy Communities," shares his insightful and provocative views about how the built environment is also central for putting us back on track. Hosted by New America Foundation's Patrick Doherty and featuring responses from Chris Leinberger of the Brookings Institution, Amy Levner of AARP, and New America's Shannon Brownlee, this lunchtime session will explore the strategic, economic and fiscal opportunities in front of our nation — opportunities driven by demographic shifts, not government

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