Routledge Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability

Shaping Neighbourhoods is unique in combining all aspects of the spatial planning of neighbourhoods and towns whilst emphasising positive outcomes for people’s health and global sustainability. This new edition retains the combination of radicalism, evidence-based advice and pragmatism that made earlier editions so popular. This updated edition strengthens guidance in relation to climate change and biodiversity, tackling crises of population health that are pushing up health-care budgets, but have elements of their origins in poor place spatial planning – such as isolation, lack of everyday physical activity, and respiratory problems. It is underpinned by new research into how people use their localities, and the best way to achieve inclusive, healthy, low-carbon settlements. The guide can assist with: • Understanding the principles for planning healthy and sustainable neighbourhoods and towns • Planning collaborative and inclusive processes for multi-sectoral working • Developing know-how and skills in matching local need with urban form • Discovering new ways to integrate development with natural systems • Designing places with character and recognising good urban form Whether you are a student faced with a local planning project; a public health professional, planner, urban designer or developer involved in new development or regeneration; a council concerned with promoting healthy and sustainable environments; or a community group wanting to improve your neighbourhood – you will find help here. Review "This latest edition of Shaping Neighbourhoods is a book that has, like all the places we love most, matured with time. The issues are thoroughly researched and the illustrations are both beautiful, yet clear and practical, making it an essential manual that should be on the desk of every mayor, local authority and others responsible for planning our towns and cities at all scales. It has a vital role to play when seeking to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals. I have no doubt that it will contribute to the making of more loveable and liveable neighbourhoods." ―George Ferguson CBE, People & Cities, First Elected Mayor of Bristol 2012-16, Past President Royal Institute of British Architects "This book provides a unique and refreshing approach to understanding how neighbourhoods impact population health and to identifying policy actions that can leverage the power of neighbourhoods to help us achieve health equity. One especially novel aspect of the book is how the themes of neighborhood health impacts, environmental sustainability, and equity are interwoven in ways that are insightful and that lend support for a transformative way to think about the health and environmental co-benefits of urban planning policies. The use of case studies and the global reach of the book also make it especially useful and novel. The presentation is also compelling with many figures, diagrams and visual representations. An outstanding addition to existing books on urban planning, neighborhoods, and health with a much needed environmental sustainability focus." ―Ana V Diez Roux, Dean Dornsife School of Public Health, Director Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel University, Philadelphia USA "Launched in the middle of a pandemic that emerged on top of an obesity epidemic and a climate emergency, this timely book provides practical guidance about how to create healthy, liveable and sustainable neighbourhoods. This is not a dress rehearsal: on our watch the world is urbanising, the population is growing, greenhouse emissions are rising, the climate is changing, biodiversity is being lost, cars are clogging and polluting our cities and chronic diseases are escalating – the impacts on human and planetary health are massive and the need for action, long overdue. We need to rethink our cities, ensuring they are underpinned by healthy, liveable and sustainable neighbourhoods - not for some, but for all. With t