2022 / Built environment + Urban design, COVID

Making Healthy Places, Second Edition: Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability

Citation

Botchwey, N., Dannenberg, A. L., & Frumkin, H. (2022). Making Healthy Places, Second Edition: Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability. Island Press.

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The first edition of Making Healthy Places was a forward-looking, research-backed look at how the places people build affect their health. Since it came out more than ten years ago, the field of healthy community design has grown and changed a lot — taking on major issues like health inequality, obesity, and climate change. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped how people live, work, learn, play, and travel.

Now comes Making Healthy Places, Second Edition: Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability. Planning and public health experts Nisha D. Botchwey, Andrew L. Dannenberg, and Howard Frumkin have brought together scholars and practitioners from around the world — from public health, planning, and urban design to sustainability, social work, and public policy. This updated edition shows how to design and build spaces that support people’s physical, mental, and emotional health, while also caring for the health of the planet.

The new edition dives deeper into topics that got less attention a decade ago. That includes how the built environment connects to equity and health disparities, climate change, community resilience, new technology, and the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Based on the latest research, Making Healthy Places, Second Edition offers a wealth of practical information on how the places people build can help meet big societal goals — like improving health and well-being, advancing equity, and building sustainable, resilient communities.

This update of a classic is a valuable read for students and working professionals in public health, planning, architecture, civil engineering, transportation, and related fields.

Abstract

In Making Healthy Places, Second Edition: Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability, planning and public health experts Nisha D. Botchwey, Andrew L. Dannenberg, and Howard Frumkin bring together scholars and practitioners from across the globe in fields ranging from public health, planning, and urban design, to sustainability, social work, and public policy. This updated and expanded edition explains how to design and build places that are beneficial to the physical, mental, and emotional health of humans, while also considering the health of the planet.

This edition expands the treatment of some topics that received less attention a decade ago, such as the relationship of the built environment to equity and health disparities, climate change, resilience, new technology developments, and the evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Drawing on the latest research, Making Healthy Places, Second Edition imparts a wealth of practical information on the role of the built environment in advancing major societal goals, such as health and well-being, equity, sustainability, and resilience.

This update of a classic is a must-read for students and practicing professionals in public health, planning, architecture, civil engineering, transportation, and related fields.