Designing Healthy Communities - Season 2

Dr. Jackson believes that it's every citizen's right to live in a clean, healthy environment. But right now, not everyone lives in an environment like that. Many low-income neighborhoods that were built near big transportation hubs and struggling industrial cities are full of citizens denied that right: in Oakland, a morbidly obese grandmother struggles to raise seven grandchildren, all of whom have asthma as a result of living near the port; in the city of Detroit, neighborhoods resemble abandoned war zones. But hope blossoms. Health officials, community activists, and a new breed of young urban pioneers are working to fix their cities by transforming food deserts and areas of urban wilderness into remodeled communities that other troubled areas can seek inspiration from.