Toward designing an environment to promote physical activity

Landscape Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 280-298

  Oka, Masayoshi ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Community based strategy; Physical activity; Physical environment; Social environment; Urban policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 82355163425     PISSN: 02772426     EISSN: 15532704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/lj.30.2.280     Document Type: Article

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