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Author: Jason Corburn
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0415613027
Category: Medical

Healthy City Planning: From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity (Planning, History and Environment Series)

Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Download Healthy City Planning medical books for free.
Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today's cities will be equitable and healthy. Having made the case for what he calls 'adaptive urban health justice' in the opening chapter, Corburn briefly reviews the key events, actors, ideologies, institutions and policies that shaped and reshaped the urban public health and planning from the nineteenth century to the present day. He uses two frames to organize this historical review: the view of the city as a field site and as a laboratory. In the second part of the book Corburn uses in-depth case s Get Healthy City Planning our bestseller medical books.

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