Ann Forsyth

Creating Healthy Neighborhoods

Evidence-Based Planning and Design Strategies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Good housing. Easy transit. Food access. Green spaces. Gathering places. Everybody wants to live in a healthy neighborhood. Bridging the gap between research and practice, it maps out ways for cities and towns to help their residents thrive in placed designed for living well, approaching health from every side à â â physical mental, and social.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 215mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9781611901917
• ISBN-10: 161190191X
• Artikelnr.: 47879619

Autorenporträt

Ann Forsyth

Inhaltsangabe

1. Importance: Assess how health matters in this place. 2. Balance: Make
healthier places by balancing physical changes with other interventions to
appeal to different kinds of people. 3. Vulnerability: Plan and design for
those with the most health vulnerabilities and fewest resources for making
healthy choices. 4. Layout: Foster multiple dimensions of health through
overall neighborhood layout. 5. Access: Provide options for getting around
and increasing geographic access. 6. Connection: Create opportunities for
people to interact with each other in positive ways. 7. Protection: Reduce
harmful exposures at a neighborhood level through a combination of wider
policies and regulations along with local actions. 8. Implementation:
Coordinate diverse actions over time