Making healthy places : designing and building for well-being, equity, and sustainability /
Edited by Nisha Botchwey, Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin.
- Second edition.
- 530 p. ill.: 28cm.;
"Making Healthy Places brings together experts to explain 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. The book presents a diagnosis of-and offers treatment for-problems related to the built environment. Drawing on the latest research, it imparts a wealth of practical information, with an emphasis on demonstrated and promising solutions to commonly occurring problems. In developing this new edition, the volume editors sought to increase the diversity of voices of contributors by gender, race, and geography. The contributors include scholars and practitioners from across the globe in fields ranging from public health, planning, architecture, industrial design, and urban design, to sustainability, social work, emergency medicine, and public policy. For this second edition, the references have been updated throughout the book. They have integrated a more global perspective and added content on sustainability to most chapters. While most of the key messages in the first edition still hold true, the editors expanded 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, issues across the lifespan, climate change, resilience, new technology developments, and the evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic"--