The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments.
This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and suburbs, and the health of residents, especially humans. Since then, numerous studies have extended and refined the book's research and reporting. Making Healthy Places offers a fresh and comprehensive look at this vital subject today.
There is no other book with the depth, breadth, vision, and accessibility that this book offers. In addition to being of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students in public health and urban planning, it will be essential reading for public health officials, planners, architects, landscape architects, environmentalists, and all those who care about the design of their communities.
Like a well-trained doctor, Making Healthy Places presents a diagnosis of--and offers treatment for--problems related to the built environment. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, with contributions from experts in a range of fields, it imparts a wealth of practical information, with an emphasis on demonstrated and promising solutions to commonly occurring problems.
Preface \ Richard Jackson
PART I. Introduction Chapter 1. Introduction to Healthy Places \ Howard Frumkin, Arthur Wendel, Robin Abrams, and Emil Malizia
PART II. The Impact of Community Design on Health Chapter 2. Community Design for Physical Activity \ James Sallis, Rachel Millstein, and Jordan Carlson Chapter 3. Food Environments \ Carolyn Cannuscio, Karen Glanz Chapter 4. Community Design and Air Quality \ Jonathan Samet Chapter 5. Injuries and the Built Environment, David Sleet \ Rebecca Naumann and Rose Anne Rudd Chapter 6. Community Design for Water Quantity And Quality \ Lorraine Backer Chapter 7. Mental Health and the Built Environment \ William Sullivan and Chun-Yen Chang Chapter 8. Social Capital and Community Design \ Caitlin Eicher and Ichiro Kawachi Chapter 9. Vulnerable Populations and the Built Environment \ Chris Kochtitzky
PART III. Diagnosing and Healing Our Built Environments Chapter 10. Transportation and Land Use \ Reid Ewing, Gail Meakins, Grace Bjarnson, and Holly Hilton Chapter 11. Healthy Homes \ James Krieger and David Jacobs Chapter 12. Healthy Workplaces \ Donna Heidel, L. Casey Chosewood, Matthew Gillen, Paul Schulte, Greg Wagner, Kenneth Wallingford, and Liz York Chapter 13. Healthy Health Care Settings \ Craig Zimring and Jennifer Dubose Chapter 14. Healthy Schools \ Howard Frumkin and Jared Fox Chapter 15. Contact with Nature \ Howard Frumkin and Jared Fox Chapter 16. Resiliency to Disasters \ Timothy Beatley
PART IV. Strategies for Healthy Places: A Toolbox Chapter 17. Behavioral Choices and the Built Environment \ Margaret Schneider Chapter 18. Policy and Legislation for Healthy Places \ Lisa Feldstein Chapter 19. Community Engagement in Design and Planning \ Manal Aboelata, Leah Ersoylu and Larry Cohen Chapter 20. Measuring, Assessing, and Certifying Healthy Places \ Andrew Dannenberg and Arthur Wendel
PART V. Looking Outward, Looking Ahead Chapter 21. Training the Next Generation \ Nisha Botchwey and Matthew Trowbridge Chapter 22. Healthy Places Research: Emerging Opportunities \ Richard Jackson, Arthur Wendel, and Andrew Dannenberg Chapter 23. Urban Health in Low and Middle Income Countries \ Jennifer C. Johnson and Sandro Galea Chapter 24. Built Environments of the Future \ Tony Capon and Susan Thompson
Glossary List of Contributors Acknowledgements Index
"Making Healthy Places, although it is not a theological work, is deeply theological in the vision of health that is seeking and is a book that not only must be read and discussed in churches, we must also allow it to shape our vision of what the mission of the church is in our particular places, and as such it is one of the most significant books that I've read this year!"
