Toward the Healthy City

Author: Jason Corburn
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0262013312
Category: Medical

Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning (Urban and Industrial Environments)

In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease and premature death. Download Toward the Healthy City medical books for free.
Recognizing that city environments and the planning processes that shape them are powerful determinants of population health, urban planners today are beginning to take on the added challenge of revitalizing neglected urban neighborhoods in ways that improve health and promote greater equity. In Toward the Healthy City, Jason Corburn argues that city planning must return to its roots in public health and social justice. The first book to provide a detailed Get Toward the Healthy City our bestseller medical books.

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Recognizing that city environments and the planning processes that shape them are powerful determinants of population health, urban planners today are beginning to take on the added challenge of revitalizing neglected urban neighborhoods in ways that improve health and promote greater equity The first book to provide a detailed

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