Healthy Placemaking: Wellbeing Through Urban Design by Fred London (English) Pap

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This book presents the path to healthier cities through six core themes - urban planning, walkable communities, neighbourhood building blocks, movement networks, environmental integration and community empowerment.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

In modern-day society themain threats to public health are now considered 'avoidable illnesses', whichare often caused by a lack of exercise and physical activity. Research suggests that architectural and urbandesign strategies play an important role in reducing the amount of avoidableillnesses by enabling physical activity through healthier streets. Practitioners mustnow consider how they can encourage people to leadhealthier lifestyles and improve health through urban design.This book presents the path tohealthier cities through six core themes - urban planning, walkablecommunities, neighbourhood building blocks, movement networks, environmentalintegration and community empowerment. Each theme is presented with an overviewof the issues, the solutions and how to apply them practically with exemplarsand precedents. It's an essential text that provides practitionersacross urban design, architecture, master planning with the necessary knowledgeand guidance to understand their role in producing healthier places and put itin to practice.

Author Biography

Fred London is a partner atJTP who works primarily in the residential sector, affordable and private. Fredhas longstanding experience in the design of individual buildings and isheavily involved in community planning and the design of large scale urbanplanning projects across the UK and abroad.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Human Nature and Health2. The Role of Urban Planning3. From Theory to Practice4. Where Next?5. Summary

Details ISBN1859468837 Author Fred London Year 2020 ISBN-10 1859468837 ISBN-13 9781859468838 Format Paperback Imprint RIBA Publishing Subtitle Wellbeing Through Urban Design Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 711.4 Pages 216 Short Title Healthy Placemaking Language English AU Release Date 2020-01-01 NZ Release Date 2020-01-01 Publication Date 2020-01-01 UK Release Date 2020-01-01 Publisher RIBA Publishing Audience General We've got this

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