Urban Transformations And Public Health In The Emergent City

Author : Michael Keith,Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1526150948

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Urban Transformations and Public Health in the Emergent City by Michael Keith,Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos Pdf

Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city examines how urban health and wellbeing are shaped by migration, mobility, racism, sanitation and gender. Adopting a global focus, spanning Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, the essays in this volume bring together a wide selection of voices that explore the interface between social, medical and natural sciences. This interdisciplinary approach, moving beyond traditional approaches to urban research, offers a unique perspective on today's cities and the challenges they face. Edited by Professor Michael Keith and Dr Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, this volume also features contributions from leading thinkers on cities in Brazil, China, South Africa and the United Kingdom. This geographic diversity is matched by the breadth of their different fields, from mental health and gendered violence to sanitation and food systems. Together, they present a complex yet connected vision of a 'new biopolitics' in today's metropolis, one that requires an innovative approach to urban scholarship regardless of geography or discipline. This volume, featuring chapters from a number of renowned authors including the former deputy mayor of Rio de Janeiro Luiz Eduardo Soares, is an important resource for anyone seeking to better understand the dynamics of urban change. With its focus on the everyday realities of urban living, from health services to public transport, it contains valuable lessons for academics, policy makers and practitioners alike.

Author : Michael Keith,Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526156525

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Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city by Michael Keith,Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos Pdf

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city examines how urban health and wellbeing are shaped by migration, mobility, racism, sanitation and gender. Adopting a global focus that spans Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, the essays in this volume bring together a wide selection of voices that explore the interface between social, medical and natural sciences. This interdisciplinary approach, moving beyond traditional approaches to urban research, offers a unique perspective on today’s cities and the challenges they face. Edited by Michael Keith and Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, this volume also features contributions from leading thinkers on cities in Brazil, China, South Africa and the United Kingdom. This geographic diversity is matched by the breadth of their different fields, from mental health and gendered violence to sanitation and food systems. Together, they present a complex yet connected vision of a ‘new biopolitics’ in today’s metropolis, one that requires an innovative approach to urban scholarship regardless of geography or discipline. This volume, featuring chapters from a number of renowned authors including former Deputy Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Luiz Eduardo Soares, is an important resource for anyone seeking to better understand the dynamics of urban change. With its focus on the everyday realities of urban living, from health services to public transportation, it contains valuable lessons for academics, policy makers and practitioners alike.

Author : Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786611222

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The Politics of Memory by Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos Pdf

Who decides which stories about a city are remembered? How do interpretations of the past shape a city’s present and future? In this book, Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos discusses notions of power and national identity by examining how nation-states negotiate the preservation of urban spaces and how a city interprets, resists, and consents to the functions and meanings that it has inherited and that it reinvents for itself. Looking at the Brazilian city of Ouro Preto, de Souza Santos applies fine-grained ethnography and historical analysis to discuss the limits of Brazil’s imagery of social harmony and participatory democracy amid continuous inequality.

Author : Elliott D. Sclar,Nicole Volavka-Close,Peter Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136262951

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The Urban Transformation by Elliott D. Sclar,Nicole Volavka-Close,Peter Brown Pdf

For the first time in history, half of the world's population lives in urban areas and it is expected that, by 2050, that figure will rise to above two-thirds. A large proportion of this urban growth will be taking place in the cities of the developing world, where the provision of adequate health, shelter, water and sanitation and climate change adaptation efforts for rapidly-growing urban populations will be an urgent priority. This transition to an urban world could be a negative transformation; but, if well-planned, it could also offer an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of some of the world's poorest people. This volume brings together some of the world's foremost experts in urban development with the aim of approaching these issues as an opportunity for real positive change. The chapters focus on three strategically critical aspects of this transformation: public health shelter, water and sanitation climate change adaptation. These are considered using an integrated approach that takes account of the many different sectors and stakeholders involved, and always in terms of the solutions rather than the problems. The book offers a blueprint for action in these sectors and will be of great interest to academics and policymakers in all aspects of urban development and planning.

Author : Pablo Tittonell,P. V. Vara Prasad,Julia Compton,Ruben G. Echeverria
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832538296

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Improving investment in research and innovation to transform agrifood systems in the Global South by Pablo Tittonell,P. V. Vara Prasad,Julia Compton,Ruben G. Echeverria Pdf

Author : Colin McFarlane
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839760747

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Waste and the City by Colin McFarlane Pdf

Sanitation is fundamental to urban public life and health. We need Sanitation for All. In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste in the City is a call to action on one of modern urban life’s most neglected issues: sanitation infrastructure. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the devastating consequences of unequal access to sanitation in cities across the globe. At this critical moment in global public health, Colin McFarlane makes the urgent case for Sanitation for All. The book outlines the worldwide sanitation crisis and offers a vision for a renewed, equitable investment in sanitation that democratises and socialises the modern city. Adopting Henri Lefebvre’s concept of ‘the right to the city’, it uses the notion of ‘citylife’ to reframe the discourse on sanitation from a narrowly-defined policy discussion to a question of democratic right to public life and health. In doing so, the book shows that sanitation is an urbanizing force whose importance extends beyond hygiene to the very foundation of urban social life.

Author : Michael Keith,Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos,Susan Parnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526155362

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African Cities and Collaborative Futures by Michael Keith,Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos,Susan Parnell Pdf

This book brings together scholars from across the globe and a range of disciplines to discuss the nature of African cities today. This groundbreaking collection, spanning energy, housing, infrastructure, safety and sustainability, offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues confronting urban Africa in the twenty-first century.

Author : Lei Guo,Sonola Onasanya ,Marco Kamiya
Publisher : United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat)
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789966138477

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Future Cities, New Economy, and Shared City Prosperity Driven by Technological Innovations by Lei Guo,Sonola Onasanya ,Marco Kamiya Pdf

This publication delivers an interdisciplinary approach from professionals and scholars working in government, the United Nations, academia, scientific research, and private sector. The purpose of this publication is (1) to raise awareness on new technological innovations and how these changes affect urban infrastructure and the quality of living of urban dwellers; (2) to enhance collective knowledge on different user cases of new technologies in cities and the potential benefits and risks; and (3) to call for collaboration and collective actions from all cities to smartly use and govern new tech solutions for a safer, more inclusive, and more prosperous urban environment. The launch of this publication coincided with the 10th World Urban Forum (WUF10), Abu Dhabi, 2020. Principal authors: Michael Keith, Jian Gao, Tao Zhou, Quanhui Liu, Hui Zeng, Mingxiao Zhao, Baolin Cao, Gerhard Schmitt, Jaideep Gupte, Saiful Ridwan, Harrison Simotwo, Pietro Visetti, Keli Zhu, Hongshan Zhang, Shudong Cui, Yifan Li, He Jia, George Economides, Zhiyong Fu, Peter Scupelli, Jiajun Xu, Xinyue Wu, Haishan Wu, Lei Yin, Shantian Cheng, Deyi Wu, and Bingnan Yin

Author : Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789210011136

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Review of Developments in Transport in Asia and the Pacific 2021 by Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Pdf

The publication focuses on greening urban passenger transport systems in Asia and the Pacific region. It will review existing state of public transport systems and assess the environmental sustainability and inclusiveness of passenger transport. In the context of COVID-19, it will also includes an analysis of impacts of COVID-19 on urban mobility with cases form Asian cities. By analyzing anticipated growth of passengers, energy use and emissions, and the state of infrastructure and operation of passenger transport systems, the publication make policy recommendations to improve overall sustainability, inclusiveness and resilience of urban passenger transport systems in Asia. Use of technology and innovations, promotion of active mobility and integration urban and transport planning, and regional cooperation are some of policies and actions suggested. The publication provides sufficient insight into the measures and policies, as well as ESCAP interventions, towards achieving environmental sustainability and inclusiveness of passenger transport in the region, while building back better from the COVID-19 crisis.

Author : Chinmoy Sarkar,Chris Webster,John Gallacher
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Mladenović, Miloš N.,Toivonen, Tuuli,Willberg, Elias,Geurs, Karst T.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800370517

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Transport in Human Scale Cities by Mladenović, Miloš N.,Toivonen, Tuuli,Willberg, Elias,Geurs, Karst T. Pdf

This timely book calls for a paradigm shift in urban transport, which remains one of the critically uncertain aspects of the sustainability transformation of our societies. It argues that the potential of human scale thinking needs to be recognised, both in understanding people on the move in the city and within various organisations responsible for cities.

Author : Tony Bennett,Ben Dibley,Gay Hawkins,Greg Noble
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000402209

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Assembling and Governing Habits by Tony Bennett,Ben Dibley,Gay Hawkins,Greg Noble Pdf

The increasing significance of managing or changing habits is evident across a range of pressing contemporary issues: climate change, waste management, travel practices, and crowd control. Assembling and Governing Habits engages with the diverse ways in which habits are governed through the knowledge practices and technologies that have been brought to bear on them. The volume addresses three main concerns. The first focuses on how the habit discourses proposed by a range of disciplines have informed the ways in which different forms of expertise have shaped the ways in which habits have been managed or changed to bring about specific social objectives. The second concerns the ways in which habits are acted on as aspects of infrastructures which constitute the interfaces through which technical systems, human conducts and environments are acted on simultaneously. The third concerns the specific ways in which habit discourses and habit infrastructures are brought together in the regulation of ‘city habits’: that is, habits which have specific qualities arising out of the specific conditions – the rhythms and densities – of urban life and ones which, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, have been profoundly disrupted. Written in a clear and direct style, the book will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in cultural studies, sociology, cultural geography, history of the sciences, and posthuman studies.

Author : Johanna L. Waters,Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789908732

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Handbook on Migration and the Family by Johanna L. Waters,Brenda S.A. Yeoh Pdf

This Handbook is a timely and critical intervention into debates on changing family dynamics in the face of globalization, population migration and uneven mobilities. By capturing the diversity of family ‘types’, ‘arrangements’ and ‘strategies’ across a global setting, the volume highlights how migration is inextricably linked to complex familial relationships, often in supportive and nurturing ways, but also violent and oppressive at other times.

Author : Petra Kuppinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030843815

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Emergent Spaces by Petra Kuppinger Pdf

This book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate; make and remake urban spaces; create opportunities; produce social change; challenge urban life, culture, and politics; or simply ask for their right to the city. The focus of this book is on spaces and contexts where change is seeded, regardless of whether it was planned and whether it was or will be successful in the end. Contributors analyze the seeds of change at their very inception in diverse cultural contexts across four continents. How do small groups of ordinary and often also disenfranchised people design, suggest, and implement ideas of change? How do they use and remake small urban spaces to better suit their purposes, voice claims to the city, create opportunities, and design better urban lives and futures? The emphasis of this volume is not on the nature of activities and change, but on the minute processes of initiating change. Petra Kuppinger is Professor of Anthropology at Monmouth College, USA. She has conducted research on topics of space, globalization, and consumerism in Cairo, Egypt, and issues of space, culture, and Islam in Stuttgart, Germany. More recently she has been working on topics of urban transformations and sustainability. She is the author of Faithfully Urban: Pious Muslims in a German City (Berghahn, 2015) and, together with George Gmelch, she is the co-editor of Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City (6th ed., Waveland, 2018). .

Author : Jo Ivey Boufford,Clarence E. Pearson,Laurie Norris,David Vlahov
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780470880845

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Urban Health by Jo Ivey Boufford,Clarence E. Pearson,Laurie Norris,David Vlahov Pdf

In the twentieth century, the urban settings of the wealthy nations were largely associated with opportunity, accumulation of wealth, and better health than their rural counterparts. In the twenty-first century, demographic changes, globalization, and climate change are having important health consequences on wealthy nations and especially on low- and middle-income countries. The increasing concentration of poverty and significant inequalities between urban neighborhoods and the physical and social environments in cities are important determinants of population health. In this important new book, experts identify the priority problems and outline solutions that can generate and sustain healthy urban environments. Foreword by Michael H. Bloomberg Contributors include: Sue Atkinson, John G. Bartlett, Angela Beaton, Karl Brown, Pamela Ligouri Bunker, Robert J. Bunker, Scott Burris, Waleska Teixeira Caiffa, Roel A. Coutinho, Manuel Carballo, Ruth Colagiuri, Beatriz de Faria Leao, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, Alex Ezeh, Geoff Green, Claudio Giulliano da Costa Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Ruth Finkelstein, Julio Frenk, Nicholas Freudenberg, Fu Hua, Sandro Galea, Ticia Gerber, Carola Hein, Catherine Hull, Tord Kjellstrom, Jacob Kumaresan, Catherine Ronald Labonté, Stephen Leeder, Godfrey Mbarauku, Gordon McGranahan, Patricia Monge, Mark R. Montgomery, Martin Mulenga, Ana Luiza Nabuco, Julie Netherland, Ndioro Ndiaye, Rougui Ndiaye-Coïc, Kalala Ngalamulume, Danielle Ompad, Stipe Oreskovic, Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Jonathan Parkinson, Fernando Augusto Proietti, Thomas C. Quinn, Carlos E. Restrepo, Kevin J. Robinson, Jonathan M. Samet, David Satterthwaite, Richard H. Schneider, Ted Schrecker, Elliott Sclar, Maria Steenland, Agis Tsouros, Arnoud P. Verhoeff, Nicole Volavka-Close, Michael Ward, Vanessa Watson, Rae Zimmerman.