Intersections

The built environment is essentially everything in our physical world that has been manipulated for human activity. Our understanding of the built environment is fragmented over many domains of knowledge operating at multiple scales simultaneously. Responsibility for the built environment cuts across the boundaries of academic and professional disciplines at all levels in society. The planning and design of a built environment that promotes human health within a larger definition of sustainability requires collaboration between all domains of authorship including architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and public health sciences. Intersections is an online journal exploring the intersections of the built environment and public health through the work of a group of instructors and their research at the University of Virginia.