Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability

Shaping Neighbourhoods is a guide that combines all aspects of spatial planning to promote positive outcomes for people's health and global sustainability. It retains the combination of radicalism, evidence-based advice, and pragmatism that made earlier editions popular, and is underpinned by new research into how people use their localities. It can assist with understanding the principles for planning healthy and sustainable neighborhoods, planning collaborative and inclusive processes, developing know-how and skills in matching local need with urban form, discovering new ways to integrate development with natural systems, and designing places with character and recognizing good urban form.

Format: Hardback
Length: 418 pages
Publication date: 30 June 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Shaping Neighbourhoods is a groundbreaking approach to spatial planning that combines all aspects of neighborhood and town planning while prioritizing positive outcomes for people's health and global sustainability. This new edition maintains the unique blend of radicalism, evidence-based advice, and pragmatism that has made previous editions so popular.

This updated edition strengthens guidance in relation to climate change and biodiversity, addressing crises of population health that are straining healthcare budgets but have elements of their origins in poor place spatial planning, such as isolation, lack of everyday physical activity, and respiratory problems. It is underpinned by new research into how people use their localities and the best ways to achieve inclusive, healthy, low-carbon settlements.

The guide can assist with:

Understanding the principles for planning healthy and sustainable neighborhoods and towns.

Planning collaborative and inclusive processes for multi-sectoral working.

Developing know-how and skills in matching local needs with urban form.

Discovering new ways to integrate development with natural systems.

Designing places with character and recognizing good urban form.

Whether you are a student facing a local planning project, a public health professional, planner, urban designer, or developer involved in new development or regeneration, a council concerned with promoting healthy and sustainable environments, or a community group wanting to improve your neighborhood, you will find help here.

Weight: 1808g
Dimension: 224 x 282 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367336912
Edition number: 3 New edition