Jason Corburn: 2 books
Toward the Healthy City
People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.
In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds,...
Healthy City Planning
From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy.
Having made the...