Healthy Cities: Critical Concepts in Built Environment

Healthy Cities: Critical Concepts in Built Environment
ISBN-10
1138794236
ISBN-13
9781138794238
Series
Healthy Cities
Category
City planning
Pages
574
Language
English
Published
2016
Author
Jason Corburn

Description

While the fields of modern city planning and public health emerged together in the 19th century to address urban inequities and infectious diseases, they were largely disconnected for much of the 20th century. In the 21st 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 ...

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