Sara Jensen Carr

“There’s a real history of forgetting, especially in the United States,” said Sara Jensen Carr, an architect at Northeastern University who studies the connection between design and health.

These appeal to people for reasons in addition to not having to buy gas, said Sara Jensen Carr, an assistant professor of architecture, urbanism, and landscape at Northeastern University. “So much of the American urban landscape is centered around the car, and that’s not changing,” Carr said. But “in term of leisure travel and vacation, […]

This isn’t the first time parks have shone in a public health crisis, Sara Jensen Carr, an architecture professor at Northeastern University, told me: The initial popularization of public parks in the United States was a response to devastating epidemics.

If they do, the widely-publicized six-foot distancing guidelines could redefine the layout and spacing of new public facilities, according to Northeastern University’s Sara Jensen Carr, whose forthcoming book “The Topography of Wellness” considers how urban landscapes have been transformed by epidemics like cholera, tuberculosis and obesity.

Sara Jensen Carr, assistant architecture professor at Boston’s Northeastern University, said cholera and yellow fever outbreaks resulted in the building of underground wastewater systems and green spaces like New York City’s Central Park.

“Density is still a very fraught subject in the US,” says Sara Jensen Carr, an architecture professor at Northeastern University in Boston and author of the forthcoming book, The Topography of Wellness: Health and the American Urban Landscape.