Full Description
Planning Australia's Healthy Built Environments shines a quintessentially Australian light on the links between land use planning and human health. A burgeoning body of empirical research demonstrates the ways urban structure and governance influences human health—and Australia is playing a pivotal role in developing understandings of the relationships between health and the built environment.
This book takes a retrospective look at many of the challenges faced in pushing the healthy built environment agenda forward. It provides a clear and theoretically sound framework to inform this work into the future. With an emphasis on context and the pursuit of equity, Jennifer L. Kent and Susan Thompson supply specific ways to better incorporate idiosyncrasies of place and culture into urban planning interventions for health promotion.
By chronicling the ways health and the built environment scholarship and practice can work together, Planning Australia's Healthy Built Environments enters into new theoretical and practical debates in this critically important area of research. This book will resonate with both health and built environment scholars and practitioners working to create sustainable and health-supportive urban environments.
Contents
Introduction Part One: Introducing Australia Chapter 1: Australia and Australia's Planning Chapter 2: Australia's Health Part Two: Domains of Wellbeing Chapter 3: Planning for the Health of the Planet Chapter 4: Planning for Physical Activity Chapter 5: Planning for Social Interaction Chapter 6: Planning for Healthy Eating Part Three: Domains of the Built Environment Chapter 7: Residential Spaces Chapter 8: Public Open Spaces Chapter 9: Transport, Access and Health Chapter 10: Commercial, Service and Employment Spaces Chapter 11: Reflections on Principles of Healthy Planning Appendix One: Glossary Appendix Two: Four of Four: Further Information
