The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being [electronic resource] : Shaping a sustainable and healthy future.
Urban planning is deeply implicated in both the planetary crisis of climate change and the personal crises of unhealthy lifestyles. Worldwide health issues such as obesity, mental illness, growing health inequalities and climate vulnerability cannot be solved solely by medicines but also by tackling...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; PART I Perspectives; 1 Planning for health and well-being: the time for action; 2 Integrating health into town planning: a history; 3 Urban inequities, population health and spatial planning; 4 Rapid urbanisation, health and well-being: how informal settlements, slums and sprawling suburbs are globalising health problems; 5 Healthy cities, healthy planet: towards the regenerative city.
- 6 Mind the gap: bridging the divide between knowledge, policy and practicePART II The human experience; 7 Health inequalities and the role of the physical and social environment; 8 Active travel: its fall and rise; 9 The influence of urban design and planning on physical activity; 10 Healthy play for all ages in public open spaces; 11 Mental well-being and the influence of place; 12 Crime and community safety: challenging the design consensus; 13 The role of planning and design in advancing a bio-nutrition-sensitive food system; PART III The human habitat.
- 14 Obesogenic built environment: concepts and complexities15 Settlement patterns, urban form and travel; 16 Retrofitting suburbia for health: scenarios for neighbourhood planning; 17 Beyond the park: linking urban greenspaces, human well-being and environmental health; 18 Hotter cities: climate change and planning for resilient, healthy urban environments; 19 Housing, energy efficiency and fuel poverty; 20 The spatial determinants of air quality; 21 Water management, urban development and health; PART IV Processes and tools.
- 22 The co-benefits framework for understanding and action on climate change23 Delivering healthy places: the role of the private sector; 24 Building collaborative partnerships; 25 Creating healthier, smarter places: learning from European cities; 26 Assessing the potential health effects of policies, plans, programmes and projects; 27 A strategic approach to green infrastructure planning; 28 Healthy housing; 29 Community housing and place-making: narratives, forms and processes for convivial living; 30 Local management of energy demand and supply; PART V Healthy planning in global practice.
- 31 Healthy planning in Australia32 Planning for resilient cities: lessons from post-earthquake Canterbury; 33 The development of a healthy ageing programme in Taiwan; 34 Managing city development for health in India: the case of Hyderabad city; 35 The integration of health into planning in Turkish cities; 36 Health-integrated planning and appraisal in the English Midlands; 37 The three fabrics strategy in Finland; 38 Freiburg: green capital of Europe; 39 Public realm and public health in North American cities: reshaping cities to encourage and enable active travel.