Urban Planning and Public Health

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Volume 49 – Number 2

Summary

The papers in this issue highlight the need to integrate public health considerations into urban planning processes. With case studies form England, China and New Zealand, the contributors introduce innovative methodological strategies to better understand the urban planning–public health relationship. They emphasize the importance of cross-sector collaboration and governmental support to facilitate cooperation of the various parties in order achieve equitable, healthy and sustainable urban environments.

Cecilia Wong, Caglar Koksal, Kathy Pain and Heeseo Rain Kwon

19 Jun 2023

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Contents

• Urban Planning and Public Health
  CECILIA WONG, KATHY PAIN, HEESEO RAIN KWON and CAGLAR KOKSAL
• Beyond Public Health, Beyond Spatial Planning: Boundary-Spanning Policy Regime of Urban Health in England
  CAGLAR KOKSAL and CECILIA WONG
• Searching for Health and Wellbeing: Commercial Real Estate Actor Encounters with Planning in the Urban Decision-making ‘Black Box’
  HEESEO RAIN KWON and KATHY PAIN
• Linking Environmental and Human Health in English Urban Development Decision-Making: The Human Health Literacy of Environmental Policy
  AMY BURNETT and KATHY PAIN
• Rethinking Urban Planning for Healthy Cities in the Wake of COVID-19: Lessons from Wuhan
  HANBEI CHENG and ZHIGANG LI
• (Un)successful Urban Regeneration and Wellbeing: Inter-Sector Collaboration in a Regenerating Post-Disaster City
  KAREN BANWELL and SIMON KINGHAM
• Mental Wellbeing, Housing Provision and Social Valuation in a United Kingdom Context: A Planning Issue?
  IJEOMA JANE EMEGHE and KATHY PAIN
• Using Decision-Tree Methodologies to Explore Determinants of Health and Wellbeing Outcomes at the Local Authority Scale: The Case Study of London
  HAIFENG NIU, XINMENG TU and ELISABETE A. SILVA
• Meaningful Engagement: An Approach to Healthier Urban Development and Planning
  SIȂN PEAKE-JONES and ANNA LE GOUIAS
• Publication Reviews

Cover image: ‘A court for King Cholera’, cartoon by John Leech, published in Punch in 1852. (Source: CC Wellcome Library, London)

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