Main description:

The first edition of Making Healthy Places offered a visionary and thoroughly researched treatment of the connections between constructed environments and human health. Since its publication over 10 years ago, the field of healthy community design has evolved significantly to address major societal problems, including health disparities, obesity, and climate change. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended how we live, work, learn, play, and travel.

In Making Healthy Places, Second Edition: Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability, planning and public health experts Nisha D. Botchwey, Andrew L. Dannenberg, and Howard Frumkin bring together scholars and practitioners from across the globe in fields ranging from public health, planning, and urban design, to sustainability, social work, and public policy. This updated and expanded edition explains how to design and build places that are beneficial to the physical, mental, and emotional health of humans, while also considering the health of the planet.

This edition expands the treatment of some topics that received less attention a decade ago, such as the relationship of the built environment to equity and health disparities, climate change, resilience, new technology developments, and the evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Drawing on the latest research, Making Healthy Places, Second Edition imparts a wealth of practical information on the role of the built environment in advancing major societal goals, such as health and well-being, equity, sustainability, and resilience. This update of a classic is a must-read for students and practicing professionals in public health, planning, architecture, civil engineering, transportation, and related fields.

Contents:

Table of Contents
Dedication
Foreword by Richard J. Jackson
Preface by Nisha D. Botchwey, Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin)
1.An Introduction to Healthy, Equitable, and Sustainable Places by Howard Frumkin, Andrew L. Dannenberg,
Nisha D. Botchwey
PART I. Health Impacts of the Built Environment
1.Physical Activity and the Built Environment by Nisha D. Botchwey, M. Renee Umstattd Meyer, Meaghan McSorley
1.Food, Nutrition, and Community Design by Roxanne Dupuis, Karen Glanz, Carolyn Cannuscio
1.The Built Environment and Air Quality by Patrick Lott Kinney, Priyanka Nadia deSouza
1.Injury, Violence, and the Built Environment by Corinne Peek-Asa, Christopher N. Morrison
1.Water, Health, and the Built Environment by Charisma S. Acey, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah
1.Built Environments, Mental Health and Well-being by Xiangrong Jiang, Chia-Ching Wu, Chun-Yen Chang,
William C. Sullivan
1.Social Capital and Community Design by Kasley Killam, Ichiro Kawachi
1.Inequity, Gentrification, and Urban Health by Helen V. S. Cole, Isabelle Anguelovski
1.Healthy Places Across the Lifespan by Nisha Botchwey, Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, Jordana L. Maisel, Howard
Frumkin
PART II. Designing Places for Well-being, Equity, and Sustainability
1.Transportation, Land Use, and Health by Susan Handy
1.Healthy Homes by David E. Jacobs, Amanda Reddy
1.Healthy Workplaces by Jonathan A. Bach, Paul Schulte, L. Casey Chosewood, Gregory R. Wagner
1.Healthy Healthcare Settings by Craig Zimring, Jennifer R. DuBose, Bea Sennewald
1.Healthy Schools by Claire L. Barnett, Erika Sita Eitland
1.Contact with Nature by Howard Frumkin
1.Climate Change, Cities, and Health by Jose G. Siri, Katherine Britt Indvik
1.Community Resilience and Healthy Places by Jose G. Siri, Katherine Britt Indvik, Kimberley O'Sullivan
PART III. Strategies for Healthy Places: A Toolkit
1.Healthy Behavioral Choices and the Built Environment by Christopher Coutts, Patrice C. Williams
1.Legislation, Policy, and Governance for Healthy Places by Eugenie L. Birch
1.Community Engagement for Health, Equity, and Sustainability by Manal J. Aboelata, Jasneet K. Bains
1.Measuring, Assessing, and Certifying Healthy Places by Carolyn A. Fan, Andrew L. Dannenberg
PART IV. Looking Forward, Taking Action
1.Training the Next Generation of Healthy Placemakers by Nisha D. Botchwey, Olivia E. Chatman, Matthew
Trowbridge, Yakut Gazi
1.Innovative Technologies for Healthy Places by J. Aaron Hipp, Mariela Alfonzo, Sonia Sequeira
1.Healthy Places Research: Emerging Opportunities by Andrew L. Dannenberg, Nisha D. Botchwey, Howard
Frumkin
1.COVID and the Built Environment: Lessons Learned by Howard Frumkin
1.Healthy, Equitable, and Sustainable Built Environments for the Future individual contributions by Hugh Barton,
Timothy Beatley, Rachel Hodgdon, Blessing Mberu, Charles Montgomery, Toks Omishakin, Tolullah Oni, Carlo Ratti,
Sagar Shah, Mitchell J. Silver, Bruce Stiftel, Alice Sverdlik, Katie Swenson, Susan Thompson, Jason Vargo
Glossary
About the Editors
List of Contributors
Index