Healthy cities : Integrating sport and walkable space in to urban planning

ISBN-13: 9783659832932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 76 str.

Abdul Hamid Malek Mahmudi; Vahid Pour Basat; Hassan Alijani

Opis

The most obvious advantage of a walkable community is the health benefit of exercise to individual citizens.Urban planning can either promote walking and the use of alternate modes of transportation or promote inactivity and the use of cars. One of the main characterizes in order to achieving "healthy city" is creating urban sport and walkable space. Urban management and local governance should be attended to healthy issues in communities . This book has been prepared in order to analyzing characterizes of healthy cities. So, has been organized in four chapters. In chapter one was introduced healthy city, in other word literature review. In chapter two was studied walkability concept, also was introduced success walkable cities. In chapter three was discussed the role of sport in healthy city. Also, was reviewed appropriate urban spaces in order to creating sport space such as squares, under the bridge, near the beach and etc. At finally, in fourth chapter were analyzed healthy characterizes in studied area .Also in this work, has been proposed action plans in neighborhoods according to studied health factors.

O autorze

The main author in this book is Abdul Hamid Malek Mahmudi . He has 10 published papers with different case studies in national and international journals. Also, other authors are Vahid Pour Basat and Dr. Hassan Alijani They have published papers and book about healthy cities and healthy space such as walkable and sporty communities.