Urban Transformations and Public Health in the Emergent City

Informationen zum Autor Michael Keith is Professor at COMPAS, University of OxfordAndreza A. De Souza Santos is a Lecturer at the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford Klappentext This book is a collection of essays exploring different aspects of health and wellbeing in cities today. With contributions on Brazil, China, South Africa and the United Kingdom, the volume covers a range of fields including mental health, migration, mobility, sanitation, gendered violence and structural racism from a multidisciplinary perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction: Urban transformation and public health in future cities - Michael Keith and Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos 2 Mental health, stress and the contemporary metropolis - Nikolas Rose 3 Feminised urban futures, healthy cities and violence against women and girls (VAWG): Transnational reflections from Brazilians in London and Maré, Rio de Janeiro - Cathy McIlwaine, Miriam Krenzinger, Yara Evans and Eliana Sousa Silva4 Understanding the relationships between wellbeing and mobility in the unequal city: The case of community initiatives promoting cycling and walking in São Paulo and London - Tim Schwanen and Denver V. Nixon5 Urban (sanitation) transformation in China: A Toilet Revolution and its socio-eco-technical entanglements - Deljana Iossifova 6 The food environment and health in African cities: Analysing the linkages and exploring possibilities for improving health and wellbeing - Warren Smit7 Urban mental health and the moral economies of suffering in a 'broken city': Reinventing depression among Rio de Janeiro urban dwellers - Leandro David Wenceslau and Francisco Ortega 8 Violence as a language of construction and deconstruction in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil - Luiz Eduardo Soares9 Conclusion: City DNA, public health and a new urban imaginary - Michael Keith and Andreza Aruska de Souza SantosIndex

Product details

• Authors: Michael Santos Keith
• Assisted by: Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos (Editor), Michael Keith (Editor), Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781526150950
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5095-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Global Urban Transformations
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Humangeographie, Stadt- und Gemeindeplanung, Brazil, MEDICAL / Public Health, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Medical / Nursing, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Personal & public health, Republic of South Africa, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Urban & municipal planning, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Personal and public health / health education, Urban communities / city life