Creating Healthy Neighborhoods - Evidence-Based Planning and Design Strategies

Good housing. Easy transit. Food access. Green spaces. Gathering places. Everybody wants to live in a healthy neighborhood. Bridging the gap between research and practice, it maps out ways for cities and towns to help their residents thrive in placed designed for living well, approaching health from every side - physical mental, and social.

List of contents

1. Importance: Assess how health matters in this place. 2. Balance: Make healthier places by balancing physical changes with other interventions to appeal to different kinds of people. 3. Vulnerability: Plan and design for those with the most health vulnerabilities and fewest resources for making healthy choices. 4. Layout: Foster multiple dimensions of health through overall neighborhood layout. 5. Access: Provide options for getting around and increasing geographic access. 6. Connection: Create opportunities for people to interact with each other in positive ways. 7. Protection: Reduce harmful exposures at a neighborhood level through a combination of wider policies and regulations along with local actions. 8. Implementation: Coordinate diverse actions over time

About the author

Ann Forsyth

Summary

Good housing. Easy transit. Food access. Green spaces. Gathering places. Everybody wants to live in a healthy neighborhood. Bridging the gap between research and practice, it maps out ways for cities and towns to help their residents thrive in placed designed for living well, approaching health from every side – physical mental, and social.

Product details

• Authors: Ann Forsyth, Ann Salomon Forsyth, Forsyth Ann, Emily Salomon, Laura Smead
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781611901917
• ISBN: 978-1-61190-191-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, Regional & area planning, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Landscape architecture and design, Regional and area planning, Civil engineering, surveying and building