By Herb Smart
Turlock Journal

Thursday, June 23, 2005 7:24 PM CDT

MODESTO - Dr. Richard Jackson was driving down a busy street on a hot day in 1999. He saw a woman in her late 70s who looked like she was having trouble making her way down the sidewalk.

"If that poor woman collapsed of heat stroke, the doctor in the emergency room would write 'death by heatstroke.' He wouldn't write 'lack of trees, poor urban planning, or lack or public transportation,'" Jackson said Wednesday at a seminar on urban planning and its relation to health.

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