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Toward the Healthy City

Author : Jason Corburn
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262258099
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Toward the Healthy City written by Jason Corburn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning. In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease and premature death. Recognizing that city environments and the planning processes that shape them are powerful determinants of population health, urban planners today are beginning to take on the added challenge of revitalizing neglected urban neighborhoods in ways that improve health and promote greater equity. In Toward the Healthy City, Jason Corburn argues that city planning must return to its roots in public health and social justice. The first book to provide a detailed account of how city planning and public health practices can reconnect to address health disparities, Toward the Healthy City offers a new decision-making framework called “healthy city planning” that reframes traditional planning and development issues and offers a new scientific evidence base for participatory action, coalition building, and ongoing monitoring. To show healthy city planning in action, Corburn examines collaborations between government agencies and community coalitions in the San Francisco Bay area, including efforts to link environmental justice, residents' chronic illnesses, housing and real estate development projects, and planning processes with public health. Initiatives like these, Corburn points out, go well beyond recent attempts by urban planners to promote public health by changing the design of cities to encourage physical activity. Corburn argues for a broader conception of healthy urban governance that addresses the root causes of health inequities.

Towards Healthy Cities

Author : Dr Alexander Otgaar
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409488934
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Towards Healthy Cities written by Dr Alexander Otgaar and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities most effective. The authors argue that three conditions are essential for such investments: citizen empowerment, corporate responsibility and a coordinated improvement of urban health conditions. Using an integrated approach to health in line with the Healthy Cities philosophy of the World Health Organization, case studies in Helsinki, Liverpool, London, Udine and Vancouver are not only used to demonstrate the relevance of these conditions, but also to show how actors in these cities are trying to meet these conditions.

Toward the Healthy City

Author : Jason Corburn
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262513072
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Toward a Healthier City

Author : New York (N.Y.). Department of Health
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Healthier City written by New York (N.Y.). Department of Health and published by . This book was released on 1974* with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Towards Healthy Cities

Author : Alexander Otgaar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317008979
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Towards Healthy Cities written by Alexander Otgaar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities most effective. The authors argue that three conditions are essential for such investments: citizen empowerment, corporate responsibility and a coordinated improvement of urban health conditions. Using an integrated approach to health in line with the Healthy Cities philosophy of the World Health Organization, case studies in Helsinki, Liverpool, London, Udine and Vancouver are not only used to demonstrate the relevance of these conditions, but also to show how actors in these cities are trying to meet these conditions.

Healthy City Planning

Author : Jason Corburn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135038422
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Healthy City Planning written by Jason Corburn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy. Having made the case for what he calls ‘adaptive urban health justice’ in the opening chapter, Corburn briefly reviews the key events, actors, ideologies, institutions and policies that shaped and reshaped the urban public health and planning from the nineteenth century to the present day. He uses two frames to organize this historical review: the view of the city as a field site and as a laboratory. In the second part of the book Corburn uses in-depth case studies of health and planning activities in Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, and Richmond, California to explore the institutions, policies and practices that constitute healthy city planning. These case studies personify some of the characteristics of his ideal of adaptive urban health justice. Each begins with an historical review of the place, its policies and social movements around urban development and public health, and each is an example of the urban poor participating in, shaping, and being impacted by healthy city planning.

Healthy Cities

Author : Evelyne de Leeuw
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1493966944
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book Healthy Cities written by Evelyne de Leeuw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This forward-looking resource recasts the concept of healthy cities as not only a safe, pleasant, and green built environment, but also one that creates and sustains health by addressing social, economic, and political conditions. It describes collaborations between city planning and public health creating a contemporary concept of urban governance—a democratically-informed process that embraces values like equity. Models, critiques, and global examples illustrate institutional change, community input, targeted assessment, and other means of addressing longstanding sources of urban health challenges. In these ambitious pages, healthy cities are rooted firmly in the worldwide movement toward balanced and sustainable urbanization, developed not to disguise or displace entrenched health and social problems, but to encourage and foster solutions. Included in the coverage: Towards healthy urban governance in the century of the city“/li> Healthy cities emerge: Toronto, Ottawa, Copenhagen The role of policy coalitions in understanding community participation in healthy cities projects Health impact assessment at the local level The logic of method for evaluating healthy cities Plus: extended reports on healthy cities and communities in North and Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East Healthy Cities will interest and inspire community leaders, activists, politicians, and entrepreneurs working to improve health and well-being at the local level, as well as public health and urban development scholars and professionals.

Towards Healthy Cities

Author : Alexander H. J. Otgaar
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409420668
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Towards Healthy Cities written by Alexander H. J. Otgaar and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities effective. It argues that three conditions are essential: citizen empowerment, corporate responsibility and a coordinated improvement of urban health. The book uses case studies from around the world to show the importance of these conditions, and how actors are trying to meet them.

Towards Healthy Cities

Author : Alexander H. J. Otgaar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315550558
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Towards Healthy Cities written by Alexander H. J. Otgaar and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Interventions for Healthy Eating and Active Urban Living

Author : Elisa Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book Interventions for Healthy Eating and Active Urban Living written by Elisa Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide includes proven and promising community level interventions to prevent disease and improve the health of the population by: increasing access to healthy, affordable food; decreasing access to unhealthy foods and beverages; and improving opportunities for physical activity and exercise. This guide is meant for community organizations and hospitals looking to implement, increase or improve their investments in population health, particularly for low-income and historically disadvantaged urban communities. It is informed by a review of the literature and the input of more than 20 community organizations and non-profit institutions operating in New York City (NYC) and participating in the Designing a Strong and Healthy New York City (DASH-NYC) Workgroup. This guide is not intended to be a comprehensive list of the many promising programs in NYC, but rather is a curated sample of innovative activities that are working towards creating a healthier city.

Triumph of the City

Author : Edward Glaeser
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143120549
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Triumph of the City written by Edward Glaeser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011 “A masterpiece.” —Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics “Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book Review A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they? In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in both cultural and economic terms) places to live. He travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Using intrepid reportage, keen analysis, and cogent argument, Glaeser makes an urgent, eloquent case for the city's importance and splendor, offering inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest creation and our best hope for the future.

Healthy Cities

Author : Chinmoy Sarkar
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781955727
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Healthy Cities written by Chinmoy Sarkar and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mounting scientific evidence generated over the past decade highlights the significant role of our citiesê built environments in shaping our health and well-being. In this book, the authors conceptualize the •urban health nicheê as a novel approach to

Making Healthy Places

Author : Andrew L. Dannenberg
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610910362
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Making Healthy Places written by Andrew L. Dannenberg and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments. This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and suburbs, and the health of residents, especially humans. Since then, numerous studies have extended and refined the book's research and reporting. Making Healthy Places offers a fresh and comprehensive look at this vital subject today. There is no other book with the depth, breadth, vision, and accessibility that this book offers. In addition to being of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students in public health and urban planning, it will be essential reading for public health officials, planners, architects, landscape architects, environmentalists, and all those who care about the design of their communities. Like a well-trained doctor, Making Healthy Places presents a diagnosis of--and offers treatment for--problems related to the built environment. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, with contributions from experts in a range of fields, it imparts a wealth of practical information, with an emphasis on demonstrated and promising solutions to commonly occurring problems.

DASH-NYC Featured Program

Author : Elisa Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book DASH-NYC Featured Program written by Elisa Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide includes proven and promising community level interventions to prevent disease and improve the health of the population by: increasing access to healthy, affordable food; decreasing access to unhealthy foods and beverages; and improving opportunities for physical activity and exercise. This guide is meant for community organizations and hospitals looking to implement, increase or improve their investments in population health, particularly for low-income and historically disadvantaged urban communities. It is informed by a review of the literature and the input of more than 20 community organizations and non-profit institutions operating in New York City (NYC) and participating in the Designing a Strong and Healthy New York City (DASH-NYC) Workgroup. This guide is not intended to be a comprehensive list of the many promising programs in NYC, but rather is a curated sample of innovative activities that are working towards creating a healthier city.

Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research

Author : Takehito Takano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134442378
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research written by Takehito Takano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first academic work to combine public health with urban planning.

Joyride

Author : Mia Birk
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9781594857607
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Joyride written by Mia Birk and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Portland: Cadence Press, 2010.

Healthy Cities

Author : John K Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136132449
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Healthy Cities written by John K Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of health promotion as a topic for discussion and a principle for practice is widespread, and affects all groups of health professionals. The Healthy Cities project, like Health for All, was inaugurated by the World Health Organization and has informed policy throughout the world. Healthy Cities: Research and Practice examines the application of the project in a number of countries. The contributors explore problems in the relationship between policy makers, communities, and academic researchers, and discuss how the Healthy Cities program affects housing policy, community development, scientific interchange and health education. In addition, the Editors, John Davies and Michael Kelly, provide a context by tracing the history of the WHO projects and discuss them in the broader context of scientific and philosohical debates about modernism and post-modernism. The contributors are drawn from practitioners and scientists with wide experience in the area from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the United States. Healthy Cities will be invaluable to all those working at community level and in government with an interest in health, as well as students of health promotion.