Planning Australia's Healthy Built Environments

Planning Australias Healthy Built Environments explores the connections between land use planning and human health, providing a retrospective look at challenges and ways to incorporate place and culture into urban planning interventions for health promotion. It resonates with health and built environment scholars and practitioners.

Format: Hardback
Length: 252 pages
Publication date: 08 April 2019
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Planning Australia's Healthy Built Environments is a groundbreaking exploration of the intricate connections between land use planning and human health, showcasing a distinctly Australian perspective. A growing body of empirical evidence underscores the profound influence of urban structure and governance on human well-being, and Australia assumes a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of the intricate relationships between health and the built environment.

This comprehensive book takes a retrospective journey through the challenges encountered in advancing the healthy built environment agenda. It offers a robust and theoretically grounded framework to guide future endeavors in this critical field. By emphasizing context and the pursuit of equity, Jennifer L. Kent and Susan Thompson provide practical strategies for integrating the unique characteristics of place and culture into urban planning interventions aimed at promoting health.

By documenting the ways in which health and the built environment scholarship and practice can collaborate, Planning Australia's Healthy Built Environments enters into fresh theoretical and practical discussions in this vital area of research. This book will resonate with scholars and practitioners in the fields of health and built environment, who are dedicated to creating sustainable and health-supportive urban environments.

Weight: 502g
Dimension: 160 x 235 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138696365