Urban Design and Human Flourishing

ISBN-13: 9780367724375 / Miękka / 2023 / 110 str.

Opis

This volume explores the relationship between urban design and human flourishing and initiates broad discussions around relevant questions such as ‘What is a healthy place?’, ‘What influences our perceptions of built environment more? Is it our age or our cultural background?’.

Spis treści

Introduction: Urban design and human flourishing

Tim G. Townshend

1. What is a healthy place? Models for cities and neighbourhoods

Ann Forsyth

2. Validating a comprehensive plan scoring system for healthy community design in League City, Texas

Jennifer A. Horney, Caroline Dwyer, Bea Vendrell-Velez and Galen Newman

3. The effects of New Urbanism on public health

Hamid Iravani and Venkat Rao

4. Suburban shopping malls as spaces for community health and human flourishing: an Aotearoa New Zealand case study

Chantal Mawer and Rebecca Kiddle

5. Challenging the visual: learning from the mobility narratives of visually impaired persons

Jayne M. Jeffries, Rose Gilroy and Tim Townshend

6. Well-being age and space

Valeria Minucciani and Nilufer Saglar Onay

O autorze

Tim G. Townshend is Professor of Urban Design for Health and Leader of the Global Urban Research Unit (GURU) ‘Urban Design and Human Flourishing’ theme at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Tim has established an international profile in health/built environment through a steady output of publications over two decades that has forged links between disciplinary divides.