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Healthy City Planning : From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity.

Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today's cities will be equitable and healthy. Having made the cas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Corburn, Jason
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Planning, history, and the environment series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today's cities will be equitable and healthy. Having made the case for what he calls 'adaptive urban health justice' in the opening chapter, Corburn briefly reviews the key events, actors, ideologies, institutions and policies that shaped and reshaped the urban public health and planning from the nineteenth century to the present day. He uses t.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (193 pages).
ISBN:9781135038434
1135038430