Healthy city manifesto: can we afford to keep urban planning and design away from public health?

Mahtab-Uz-Zaman, Q.M.

Abstract

Conventional notion and praxis of unravelling the discipline of 'urban planning and design' from 'built environment and health' [Corburn, 2004] has contributed to urban conditions unwieldy enough to question the liveability and sustainability [Hill & Peters, 1998] of environment. Growing evidence of unswerving yet meandering effects of the planning actions on environment; and subsequently on public health suggests bridging strong link between planners, urban designers, architects, landscape architects, zoning boards, city councils - all who make decisions on planning and urban design strategies [Botchwey et al, 2009]. By rejuvenating the subject of 'health and the environment', can we emphasize that the 'environment' should be understood as the interplay between ecology (biological), physical (natural & built), social, political, aesthetic, and economic environments [Institute of Medicine, 2001]. This commentary unfolds the notion of healthy city manifestos by exploring the theoretical linkage between urban planning and design and reinforces the needs for professionals' dialogue in generating hybrid discipline towards sustainable outcome in built environment. NOTE: publisher link no longer working (last checked 2019-01-24).

Citation

MAHTAB-UZ-ZAMAN, Q.M. 2013. Healthy city manifesto: can we afford to keep urban planning and design away from public health? Global built environment review [online], 8(3), pages 3-10.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 1, 2013
• Online Publication Date: Nov 1, 2013
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Sep 21, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 21, 2016
• Journal: Global built environment review
• Print ISSN: 1474-6832
• Electronic ISSN: 1474-6824
• Publisher: Open House Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 3-10
• Keywords: Urban planning; Public health
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1831
• Publisher URL: http://www.globalbuiltenvironmentreview.co.uk/Documents/8.3%20Commentary%20(final).pdf
• Contract Date: Sep 21, 2016