In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease and premature death. Recognizing that city environments and the planning processes that shape them are powerful determinants of population health, urban planners today are beginning to take on the added challenge of revitalizing neglected urban neighborhoods in ways that improve health and promote greater equity. In Toward the Healthy City, Jason Corburn argues that city planning must return to its roots in public health and social justice. The first book to provide a detailed account of how city planning and public health practices can reconnect to address health disparities, Toward the Healthy City offers a new decision-making framework called "healthy city planning" that reframes traditional planning and development issues and offers a new scientific evidence base for participatory action, coalition building, and ongoing monitoring. To show healthy city planning in action, Corburn examines collaborations between government agencies and community coalitions in the San Francisco Bay area, including efforts to link environmental justice, residents' chronic illnesses, housing and real estate development projects, and planning processes with public health. Initiatives like these, Corburn points out, go well beyond recent attempts by urban planners to promote public health by changing the design of cities to encourage physical activity. Corburn argues for a broader conception of healthy urban governance that addresses the root causes of health inequities.

作者簡介

傑森•科爾本（Jason Corburn） 加州大學伯剋利分校（University of California, Berkeley）城市與區域規劃係和公共衛生學院教授，伯剋利全球健康城市中心主任（www.healthycities.berkeley.edu）。著有《貧民窟健康》（Slum Health，UC Press，2016）、《健康城市》（Healthy Cities，Routledge，2015）和其他三本關於城市健康公平的獲奬書籍:《健康城市規劃》（Healthy City Planning，Routledge，2013）、《邁嚮健康城市》（Toward the Healthy City，MIT Press，2009）和《街道科學》（Street Science，MIT Press，2005）。其教學、研究和實踐均緻力於與社區組織協同工作，在全球範圍的城市中構建公共健康、城市規劃和社會公平之間的聯係。2013年，因其在肯尼亞內羅畢市的城市健康和基礎設施方麵的工作，獲得聯閤國協會全球公民奬。

譯者簡介

王蘭 同濟大學建築與城市規劃學院教授，博士生導師；健康城市規劃與治理一流學科團隊責任教授和健康城市實驗室主任；中國城市科學研究會健康城市專業委員會副主任委員兼秘書長；亞洲發展銀行—同濟大學城市知識中心執行副主任和世界銀行的城市發展研究顧問。著有《宜居•健康•可持續：中國宜行城市》（同濟大學齣版社，2017），Studies on High-speed Rail New Town Planning and Development（Springer & Tongji University Press，2019）和Urban Planning and Development in China and Other East Asian Countries（Springer & Tongji University Press，2019）。主持多項健康城市相關國傢自然科學基金項目和多本中英文專刊。其在教學、研究和實踐多方麵緻力於城市發展戰略規劃與治理，探討城市特定發展戰略的規劃與實施，包括高鐵新城、全球城市和城市更新；近期專注於健康城市規劃的研究和實踐。