Contents: Foreword Preface 1. Introduction 2. Tracing the Ever-evolving Relationship between Urban Planning and Public Health 3. The Urban Health Niche: A New Paradigm in Healthy City Planning 4. Spatial Determinants of Health 5. Spatial Design Network Analysis for Urban Health (sDNA-UH) 6. Urban Built Environment Configuration and Psychological Distress in Later Life: Cross Sectional Results from the Caerphilly Prospective Study (CaPS) 7. Built Environment Configuration and Change in Body Mass Index: The Caerphilly Prospective Study (CaPS) 8. Does Accessibility to Health Promoting Services Affect Self-perceived Health, HADS Anxiety and Depression? Findings from a Multi-level Analysis of Older Men in Caerphilly 9. Conclusion References Appendices Index
Chinmoy Sarkar and Chris Webster, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong and John Gallacher, Department of Psychiatry, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, UK
‘Our cities’ built environments shape our health and well-being,
and Sarkar, Webster and Gallacher conceptualize the “urban health
niche” as an approach to public health and healthy-city planning.
The book is of practical use for those involved in public policy,
public health and urban planning. The text also has a place in
academia as a good foundation for new research being done by
epidemiologists, urban planners, economists, and sociologists.’
*Sheryl D. Landry,*
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