Designing Healthy Cities: Prescriptions, Principles, And Practice Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
This work provides a framework for examining how planning and design professionals may promote human health and reduce the burden of disease and disability. Planners, architects and politicians should be able to consider the full health impact of their decisions, while professionals, decision makers and community activists may evaluate specific design issues and develop a set of working guidelines most appropriate for the unique community being examined.
Hardcover: 142 pages
Publisher: Krieger Pub Co; 1St Edition edition (October 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0894649272
ISBN-13: 978-0894649271
Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 9 x 11.2 inches
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Designing Healthy Cities is a welcome addition to the literature on how good planning can promote -- or hinder -- public health. It's also well-written and accessible. Highly recommended for city planners, architects, and others interested in building healthier cities.
In the tradition of E.F. Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful", Aicher's Designing Healthy Cities is sure to create controversy and promote discussion. It's practical prescriptions are sure to appeal to urban planners, designers, environmentalists, sociologists, social activists - in fact to anyone concerned with promoting healthier communities for all of our citizens.
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