Urban planning & public health : a critical partnership
- Author/Creator:
- Greenberg, Michael R., author
- Publication/Creation:
- Washington, DC : American Public Health Association, [2017]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Urban planning & public health : a critical partnership / Michael R. Greenberg, Dona Schneider
- Variant Titles:
- Urban planning and public health
Related Names
- Additional Author/Creators:
- Schneider, Dona, 1946-, author
American Public Health Association, issuing body
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Urban Health
City Planning
Public Health
Public Policy
Environment Design
Safety
City planning--Health aspects
Urban health
United States
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- A critical partnership -- Building blocks of urban planning -- Building blocks of public health -- Overview of tools and case studies -- Enhancing a good idea -- Keeping people out of harm's way -- Managing legal and moral obligations -- Redeveloping an eyesore : how safe is safe enough? -- Evaluating a proposed major regional asset -- Improving the health and safety of indoor living spaces -- Keeping abreast of issues, models, data sets, and tools.
- Summary:
- "Urban environments have enormous impacts on health of populations, with close to 80% of the U.S. population living in cities; public health and planning professional are presented real challenges to create the healthiest environment possible. Traditionally, the discipline of urban planning has concerned itself with the built environment -- buildings, roads, utilities, and the like -- while public health concerns itself with the health of people who live in that environment. A major challenge, then, is how to incorporate concerns for health as an integral part of urban planning initiatives, rather than simply measuring the health outcomes after planning decisions have been made. This book now equips public health professionals to participate effectively in the planning process, building positive health outcomes into planning schemes. This book not only provides real guidance on how to solve these issues, but also has case studies that show how effective these policies can be."--Publisher's website.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936742119602486
- ISBN:
- 9780875532899
0875532896 - OCLC Number:
- 1002722551
- Barcode:
- 070000161916
010003042282
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