Frumkin will chair big New Urbanism meet in ATL
BY Ken Edelstein • January 5, 2010
Dr. Howard Frumkin
One of my favorite scientists — Atlanta’s Dr. Howard Frumkin — will serve as “honorary chair” of the upcoming Congress for New Urbanism in Atlanta.
Frumkin’s title is more than a mouthful: He’s director of the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But I know him more as that rare breed of world-class scientist who isn’t afraid to speak English and at the same time take a passionate, humanist approach to his work. In other words, he cares about environmental impacts in the real world and tries to do something about them.
As the Congress for New Urbanism website describes him:
An internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist, and epidemiologist, Dr. Frumkin has authored and co-authored more than 160 scientific journal articles and chapters. His books include Urban Sprawl and Public Health, named a Top Ten Book of 2005 by Planetizen, the Planning and Development Network. Dr. Frumkin oversees CDC’s Healthy Community Design Initiative, which looks at how communities can be designed to make it easier for people to live healthy lives.
The Congress for New Urbanism meeting — May 19-22 at the downtown Hilton — is a big deal for Atlanta. It’s the 18th annual “congress” of an organization that helped to shepherd a saner version of architecture and planning onto America’s suburban and urban landscapes. Its theme this year: “Rx for Healthy Places.”
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