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 todayʼs cities will be equitable and healthy.
Having made the case for what he calls ʻadaptive urban health justiceʼ in the opening chapter, Corburn briefly reviews the key events, actors, ideologies, institutions and policies that shaped and reshaped urban public health and planning from the nineteenth century to the present day. He uses two frames to organize this historical review: the view of the city as a field site and as a laboratory.
In the second part of the book Corburn uses in-depth case studies of health and planning activities in Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, and
Richmond, California to explore the institutions, policies and practices that constitute healthy city planning. These case studies personify some of the characteristics of his ideal of adaptive urban health justice. Each begins with an historical review of the place, its policies and social movements around urban development and public health, and each is an example of the urban poor participating in, shaping, and being impacted by healthy city planning.
Author
Jason Corburn is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is jointly
appointed in the Department of City & Regional Planning and the School of Public Health.
Contents
Contents
Introduction
1. Adaptive Urban Health Justice
2. The City in the Field
3. The City as Laboratory
4. Favela Health in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
5. Collaborative Planning in Nairobiʼs Slums
6. Planning for Environmental Health Justice in Richmond, California
7. Towards a Planet of Healthy and Equitable Cities
April 2013 - 192 pages
Hardback: 978-0-415-61301-9 - £105.00
Paperback: 978-0-415-61302-6 - £32.99
