Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning (Urban and Industrial Environments)
By Jason Corburn.
Description
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...
ISBN(s)
0262513072, 9780262513074
