Urban Planning for Healthy European Cities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. The City for Better Living

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. For the “Human” Development of Cities in an Era of Climate Change

      • Rosalba D’Onofrio, Elio Trusiani

      Pages 3-7

   3. Goals, Opportunities and Limits to the European Healthy Cities Network

      • Rosalba D’Onofrio, Elio Trusiani

      Pages 9-20

   4. Criteria of Healthfulness in Urban Environments: From a Theoretical Debate to Some Early Experiments

      • Rosalba D’Onofrio, Elio Trusiani

      Pages 21-27

3. Healthy Urban Planning in Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. The Need for New Urban Planning for Healthy Cities: Reorienting Urban Planning Towards Healthy Public Policy

      • Rosalba D’Onofrio, Elio Trusiani

      Pages 31-41

   3. Health Promotion and Urban Sustainability: A Perspective on Duality

      • Rosalba D’Onofrio, Elio Trusiani

      Pages 43-62

   4. The Crucial Point in Assessing Plans and Projects for Healthy Cities

      • Rosalba D’Onofrio, Elio Trusiani

      Pages 63-67

   5. Comparing European Cities on the Road to Integrating Health and Urban Planning

      • Rosalba D’Onofrio, Elio Trusiani

      Pages 69-79

4. Planning and Designing Healthy Cities and Communities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Improving Health Through Community Urban Planning

      • Rosalba D’Onofrio, Elio Trusiani

      Pages 83-88

   3. Best Practices Around the World: Some Suggestions for European Cities

      • Rosalba D’Onofrio, Elio Trusiani

      Pages 89-99

   4. Urban Planning and Design Centred on Health Metrics

      • Rosalba D’Onofrio, Elio Trusiani

      Pages 101-112

This book investigates different aspects of the relationship between “healthy cities” and “urban planning”, examining various best practices in Europe. It uses the above as a starting point and investigates different aspects of healthy cities, examining various best practices in Europe. Capitalizing on ongoing trials, the chapters identify the policies that underlie plans and projects that have caused positive changes in local communities in terms of the quality of life and safety of inhabitants. From these best practices, the book deduces criteria and guidelines for planning healthy and safe cities.

• Healthy cities
• Urban Planning
• European cities
• Well-being and Safety
• Quality of life
• Resilient comminication
• Urban regeneration
• Climate change
• urban geography and urbanism

• School of Architecture and Design, University of Camerino, Ascoli Piceno, Italy

  Rosalba D'Onofrio, Elio Trusiani

Rosalba D’Onofrio is a researcher of urban planning in the School of Architecture and Design “E. Vittoria” at the University of Camerino, where she teaches urban planning. In her professional and academic career, she has been involved in landscape design, urban regeneration, urban planning and design. She has worked in the fields of urban revitalization and management of private-public relationships for the transformation of the cities.  She has participated in research in the field of environmental and urban design.


Elio Trusiani has Master’s in Architecture, PhD in Town Planning, associate professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Camerino, lecturer of a post-graduate courses at La Sapienza University of Rome on cultural landscape planning, with very extensive experience (24 years) in the tools and instruments of urban planning for historical, contemporary, and informal cities, landscape planning and cultural heritage in Europe,South America, Africa, and the Middle East. He has served as scientific coordinator for national and international projects projects and programs. 

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