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Tim Townshend

Healthy Cities?

Design for Well-being

Tim Townshend

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English
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
24 February 2022
City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban & municipal planning
Series: Concise Guides to Planning
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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Imprint:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 200mm,  Width: 130mm, 
ISBN:   9781848223301
ISBN 10:   1848223307
Series:   Concise Guides to Planning
Pages:   160
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
1. Special places to everyday spaces: historic overview of health and place; 2. Deconstructing flourishing: understanding health, well-being and flourishing; 3. Sedentary cities: the consequences of 'car orientated' design; 4. The toxic high street; 5. Unfit for purpose: the health consequences of poor housing; 6. The importance of GreenBlue infrastructure: the positive impacts of green/blue infrastructure; 7. Salutogenic cities: creating places for human flourishing

Tim Townshend is Professor of Urban Design for Health and leader of the Global Urban Research Unit (GURU) 'Urban Design and Human Flourishing' theme in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University.

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