What if cities around the world actively worked to promote the
health and healing of all of their residents? Cities contribute to
the traumas that cause unhealthy stress, with segregated
neighborhoods, insecure housing, few playgrounds, environmental
pollution, and unsafe streets, particularly for the poor and
residents who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Some
cities around the world are already helping their communities heal
by investing more in peacemaking and parks than in policing;
focusing on community decision-making instead of data surveillance;
changing regulations to permit more libraries than liquor stores;
and building more affordable housing than highways. These cities
are declaring racism a public health and climate change crisis, and
taking the lead in generating equitable outcomes. In Cities for
Life, public health expert Jason Corburn shares lessons from three
of these cities: Richmond, California; Medellín, Colombia; and
Nairobi, Kenya. Corburn draws from his work with citizens,
activists, and decision-makers in these cities over a ten-year
period, as individuals and communities worked to heal from
trauma—from gun violence, housing and food insecurity, and
poverty. Corburn shows how any community can rebuild their social
institutions, practices, and policies to be more focused on healing
and health. This means not only centering those most traumatized in
decision-making, Corburn explains, but confronting historically
discriminatory, exclusionary, and racist urban institutions, and
promoting healing-focused practices, place-making, and public
policies. Cities for Life is essential reading for urban planning,
design, healthcare, and public health professionals as they work to
reverse entrenched institutional practices through new policies,
rules, norms, and laws that address their damage and promote health
and healing.
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