Overview
Demonstrates that the built environment directly affects public health, the thesis remains the same—it expands the focus to examine built environment and health in the context of sustainability and climate change
Awareness of how the built environment affects human health has grown recently, but collaboration between public health officials and urban planners remains rare; the book seeks to encourage it
Authors are very well known in the fields of public health and urban planning and design
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Impact of Community Design on Health
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Diagnosing and Healing our Built Environments
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About this book
This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published by Island Press in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and suburbs, and human health. 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, from the scale of buildings up to the scale of metropolitan areas.
There is no other book with the depth, breadth, vision and accessibility that this book offers. Like a well-trained doctor, it 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, emphasizing demonstrated and promising solutions to common problems. Health professionals, planners, architects, developers, elected officials, students, and concerned members of the public will find this book invaluable.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Making Healthy Places
Book Subtitle: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability
Editors: Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin, Richard J. Jackson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-036-1
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin, and Richard J. Jackson 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-036-1Published: 03 October 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 418
Number of Illustrations: 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Medicine/Public Health, general, Urban Ecology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Building Types and Functions
