Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning

by Jason Corburn

Book Overview

A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.

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. Recognizing that city...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262513072
• ISBN13: 9780262513074
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher