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OverviewMounting scientific evidence generated over the past decade highlights the significant role of our cities' built environments in shaping our health and well-being. In this book, the authors conceptualize the 'urban health niche' as a novel approach to public health and healthy-city planning that integrates the diverse and multi-level health determinants present in a city system.The authors trace the origins of public health and city planning, drawing upon the shifting paradigms of epidemiology. Advanced network analysis techniques are employed to examine multi-scale associations between individual-level health outcomes and built environment features such as density, land-use mix and road network configuration. Healthy Cities will prove a fascinating read for an interdisciplinary body of scholars, practitioners and policy makers within the domains of public policy, regional and urban studies, urban planning, spatial epidemiology, health geography, sociology, public health and psychology. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chinmoy Sarkar , Chris Webster , John GallacherPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.636kg ISBN: 9781783474455ISBN 10: 1783474459 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 27 November 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews`Our cities' built environments shape our health and well-being, and Sarkar, Webster and Gallacher conceptualize the urban health niche as an approach to public health and healthy-city planning. The book is of practical use for those involved in public policy, public health and urban planning. The text also has a place in academia as a good foundation for new research being done by epidemiologists, urban planners, economists, and sociologists.' -- Sheryl D. Landry, International Social Science Review 'Our cities' built environments shape our health and well-being, and Sarkar, Webster and Gallacher conceptualize the urban health niche as an approach to public health and healthy-city planning. The book is of practical use for those involved in public policy, public health and urban planning. The text also has a place in academia as a good foundation for new research being done by epidemiologists, urban planners, economists, and sociologists.' -- Sheryl D. Landry, International Social Science Review Author InformationChinmoy Sarkar and Chris Webster, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong and John Gallacher, Department of Psychiatry, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, UK Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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