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Healthy Cities? - Design for Well-being (Hardcover)
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Healthy Cities? - Design for Well-being (Hardcover)
Series: Concise Guides to Planning
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The ways in which urban areas have evolved over the past 100 years
have deeply influenced the lives of the communities that live in
them. Some influences have been positive and, in the UK, people are
healthier and live longer than ever before. However, other
influences have contributed to health inequalities and poorer
well-being for some in society. Today many people suffer as a
consequence of 'lifestyle diseases', such as those associated with
growing obesity rates and harmful consumption of alcohol. The
threat of these health issues is so acute that life expectancy of
future generations may begin to decline. Healthy Cities? explores
the ways in which the development of the built environment has
contributed to health and well-being problems and how the physical
design of the places we live in may support, or constrain, healthy
lifestyle choices. It sets out how understanding these
relationships more fully may lead to policy and practice that
reduces health inequalities, increases well-being and allows people
to live more flourishing, fulfilling lives. It examines the
consequences of 'car orientated' design, the 'toxic' High Street,
and poor quality, cramped housing; and the importance of nature in
cities, and of initiatives such as community gardening, healthy
food programmes and Park Run. It questions whether Heritage is
always conducive to well-being and offers lessons from holistic and
innovative programmes from the UK, North America and Australia
which have successfully improved community and individual health
and well-being.
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