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Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning

Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning

Corburn, Jason

Paperback

Series: Urban and Industrial Environments

Medical ReferenceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0262513072
ISBN13: 9780262513074
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Oct 1 2009
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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