Healthy Cities The Theory, Policy, and Practice of Value-Based Urban Planning /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: de Leeuw, Evelyne (Editor), Simos, Jean (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health promotion.; Urban geography.; Sociology, Urban.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Urban Studies/Sociology.

This forward-looking resource recasts the concept of healthy cities as not only a safe, pleasant, and green built environment, but also one that creates and sustains health by addressing social, economic, and political conditions. It describes collaborations between city planning and public health c...