Main description:

While the fields of modern city planning and public health emerged together in the nineteenth century to address urban inequities and infectious diseases, they were largely disconnected for much of the twentieth century. In the twenty-first century, planning and public health are reconnecting to address the new health challenges of urbanization and globalization: from racial and ethnic disparities to land-use sprawl, to providing basic services to the millions of urban poor around the world living in informal slum settlements.

Reconnecting the fields of planning and public health to address these and other twenty-first-century urban health challenges is the focus of this new four-volume collection from Routledge. It brings together the very best foundational and cutting-edge research and scholarship.

Contents:

Volume I

1. Why We Need More Healthy Cities?

2. Healthy Cities in Practice

3. Cities, Planning, and Public Health in Historical Context

Volume II

4. The Built and Social Environments and Health in Cities

5. Beyond the Built Environment: Healthy Places

6. Toxic Stress, Discrimination, and Healthy Cities

Volume III

7. Housing, Segregation, and Health in the City

8. Urban Health Impact Assessment

9. Slum Health: The Twenty-first-Century Challenge for Healthy Cities

Volume IV

10. Toward a New Science Policy for Healthy Cities