The Healthiest City

Author : Judith W. Leavitt
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780299151638

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Between 1850 and 1900, Milwaukee’s rapid population growth also gave rise to high death rates, infectious diseases, crowded housing, filthy streets, inadequate water supplies, and incredible stench. The Healthiest City shows how a coalition of reform groups brought about community education and municipal action to achieve for Milwaukee the title of “the healthiest city” by the 1930s. This highly praised book reminds us that cutting funds and regulations for preserving public health results in inconvenience, illness, and even death. “A major work. . . . Leavitt focuses on three illustrative issues—smallpox, garbage, and milk, representing the larger areas of infectious disease, sanitation, and food control.”—Norman Gevitz, Journal of the American Medical Association “Leavitt’s research provides additional evidence . . . that improvements in sanitation, living conditions, and diet contributed more to the overall decline in mortality rates than advances in medical practice. . . . A solid contribution to the history of urban reform politics and public health.”—Jo Ann Carrigan, Journal of American History

Author : Jason Corburn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262013314

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Toward the Healthy City by Jason Corburn Pdf

A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.

Author : Judith Walzer Leavitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0691082987

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The Description for this book, The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform, will be forthcoming.

Author : Evelyne de Leeuw,Jean Simos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781493966943

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Healthy Cities by Evelyne de Leeuw,Jean Simos Pdf

This forward-looking resource recasts the concept of healthy cities as not only a safe, pleasant, and green built environment, but also one that creates and sustains health by addressing social, economic, and political conditions. It describes collaborations between city planning and public health creating a contemporary concept of urban governance—a democratically-informed process that embraces values like equity. Models, critiques, and global examples illustrate institutional change, community input, targeted assessment, and other means of addressing longstanding sources of urban health challenges. In these ambitious pages, healthy cities are rooted firmly in the worldwide movement toward balanced and sustainable urbanization, developed not to disguise or displace entrenched health and social problems, but to encourage and foster solutions. Included in the coverage: Towards healthy urban governance in the century of the city“/li> Healthy cities emerge: Toronto, Ottawa, Copenhagen The role of policy coalitions in understanding community participation in healthy cities projects Health impact assessment at the local level The logic of method for evaluating healthy cities Plus: extended reports on healthy cities and communities in North and Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East Healthy Cities will interest and inspire community leaders, activists, politicians, and entrepreneurs working to improve health and well-being at the local level, as well as public health and urban development scholars and professionals.

Author : Jason Corburn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135038427

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Healthy City Planning by Jason Corburn Pdf

Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy. Having made the case for what he calls ‘adaptive urban health justice’ in the opening chapter, Corburn briefly reviews the key events, actors, ideologies, institutions and policies that shaped and reshaped the urban public health and planning from the nineteenth century to the present day. He uses two frames to organize this historical review: the view of the city as a field site and as a laboratory. In the second part of the book Corburn uses in-depth case studies of health and planning activities in Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, and Richmond, California to explore the institutions, policies and practices that constitute healthy city planning. These case studies personify some of the characteristics of his ideal of adaptive urban health justice. Each begins with an historical review of the place, its policies and social movements around urban development and public health, and each is an example of the urban poor participating in, shaping, and being impacted by healthy city planning.

Author : Anthony M Orum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429981227

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City-building In America by Anthony M Orum Pdf

Why do some cities grow and expand, while others dwindle and decline? Why is Milwaukee a town of the past, while Minneapolis-St. Paul seems reborn and infused with future dynamism? And what do Milwaukee and the Twin Cities have to tell us about other cities' prospects, the trials and destinies of industrial Cleveland and post-industrial Austin? Anthony Orum's new book tells the story of these cities and, at the same time, of all cities. Here the urban past, present, and future are woven into one compelling tale. Orum traces the shift in the sources of urban growth from entrepreneurs to institutions and highlights the emergence of local government as a prominent force—indeed, as an institution—in shaping the trajectory of the urban industrial heartland. This complex trajectory includes all aspects of urban boom and bust: population trends, economic prosperity, politics and culture, as well as hard-to-pin-down qualities like a city's collective hope and vision. Interspersing social theory, historical ethnography, and comparative analysis to help explain the fates of different cities, Orum lucidly portrays factory openings, labor strikes, elections, evictions, urban blight, white flight, recession, and rejuvenation to show the core histories—and future shape—of cities beyond the particulars presented in these pages. The reader will discover the key people and politics of cities along with the forces that direct them. With a rich variety of sources including newspapers, diaries, census materials, maps, photo essays, and, perhaps most captivating, original oral histories, City-Building in America is ideal for anyone interested in urban transformation and for courses in urban sociology, urban politics, industrial sociology, social change, and social mobility.

Author : Colleen F. Milligan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Paleopathology
ISBN : MSU:31293030637056

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Paleopathology and Public Health in "America's Healthiest City" by Colleen F. Milligan Pdf

Author : Chinmoy Sarkar,Chris Webster,John Gallacher
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781781955727

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Healthy Cities by Chinmoy Sarkar,Chris Webster,John Gallacher Pdf

Mounting scientific evidence generated over the past decade highlights the significant role of our citiesê built environments in shaping our health and well-being. In this book, the authors conceptualize the •urban health nicheê as a novel approach to

Author : Stephen J. Kunitz M.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199748322

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The Health of Populations by Stephen J. Kunitz M.D. Pdf

In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social determinants of health, this book offers a well-balanced discussion on the roots of prevalent strains of thought on the matter. While this area of research deals in complex problems, it is often dominated by those who deploy rather categorical, partisan positions, citing from a wide range of contradictory statistical studies. Stephen Kunitz brings a measured, balanced and independent perspective to bear on the debate, taking a step back from current arguments to look at the fundamental issues through a socio-historical lens. Part I describes how ideas about the costs and benefits of industrialization, and about the causes of disease, have been used by writers from different ideological persuasions to explain the health of populations. Part II focuses on some of the ideas that have been particularly influential in contemporary debates: factors such as standard of living, community and its loss, inequality, and globalization. The fact that these have been used to support differing explanations of the determinants of population health suggests that there are no easy generalizations in a field with so many discrepant findings. Scientists often ignore anomalous findings in the interests of advancing a particular paradigm, until the anomalies outweigh the norm and a new paradigm is created. This book argues that in considering social determinants of health, no meaningful over-arching explanations may be possible. Rather, it is by immersion in the reality of particular contexts - work settings, historical periods, geopolitical regions, and governmental credos - that we may gain a better understanding of the way in which social forces shape patterns of health and disease.

Author : Stephen J. Kunitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195308075

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The Health of Populations by Stephen J. Kunitz Pdf

In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social determinants of health, this book offers a discussion on the roots of prevalent strains of thought on the matter. The author brings an independent perspective to bear on the debate.

Author : Herbert Girardet
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1856750973

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The Gaia Atlas of Cities by Herbert Girardet Pdf

In the last 100 years global urban populations have expanded from 15 to 50%. Urban growth patterns are changing the face of the earth and the condition of humanity. This atlas addresses these key issues, and analyses the problems of expanding cities.

Author : Edward Glaeser
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101475676

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Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser Pdf

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011 “A masterpiece.” —Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics “Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book Review A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they? In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in both cultural and economic terms) places to live. He travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Using intrepid reportage, keen analysis, and cogent argument, Glaeser makes an urgent, eloquent case for the city's importance and splendor, offering inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest creation and our best hope for the future.

Author : Charleston (S.C.). City Council,John L. Dawson,Henry William De Saussure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Census
ISBN : UVA:X004435289

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Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, for the Year 1848 by Charleston (S.C.). City Council,John L. Dawson,Henry William De Saussure Pdf

Author : Andrew L. Dannenberg,Howard Frumkin,Richard J. Jackson
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610910361

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Making Healthy Places by Andrew L. Dannenberg,Howard Frumkin,Richard J. Jackson Pdf

The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments. This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and suburbs, and the health of residents, especially humans. Since then, numerous studies have extended and refined the book's research and reporting. Making Healthy Places offers a fresh and comprehensive look at this vital subject today. There is no other book with the depth, breadth, vision, and accessibility that this book offers. In addition to being of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students in public health and urban planning, it will be essential reading for public health officials, planners, architects, landscape architects, environmentalists, and all those who care about the design of their communities. Like a well-trained doctor, Making Healthy Places presents a diagnosis of--and offers treatment for--problems related to the built environment. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, with contributions from experts in a range of fields, it imparts a wealth of practical information, with an emphasis on demonstrated and promising solutions to commonly occurring problems.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104231412

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House Pdf