Article
Planning a Healthy City: Progress and Challenges in Portland, Oregon
The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being
(2015)
Abstract
Urban planning is deeply implicated in both the planetary crisis of climate change and the personal crises of unhealthy lifestyles. Worldwide health issues such as obesity, mental illness, growing health inequalities and climate vulnerability cannot be solved solely by medicines but also by tackling the social, economic and environmental determinants. In a time when unhealthy and unsustainable conditions are being built into the physical fabric of cities, a new awareness and strategy is urgently needed to putting health and well-being at the heart of planning.
Keywords
- Urban planning
Disciplines
Publication Date
2015
Publisher Statement
Copyright (2015) Routledge
Citation Information
Barton, H., Thompson, S., Burgess, S., & Grant, M. (Eds.). (2015). The Routledge handbook of planning for health and well-being: Shaping a sustainable and healthy future. Routledge.