There is one number that may determine how healthy you are and how long you will live. It's your address. In communities with parks and playgrounds, grocery stores, and other assets, you are more likely to thrive. And where those things are missing, the opposite is true. Today we join Desiree D. Powell, MCRP, Urban Planner and Designer to discuss the relationship between healthy places and healthy people, how environments are designed, and how we can be better anti-racist planners.

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Visit Desiree’s website Do Right By the Streets here. 

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