For Further Information Making Healthy Places, Second Edition Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability Edited by Nisha D. Botchwey, Andrew Dannenberg, and Howard Frumkin
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Healthy, Equitable, and Sustainable Places By Howard Frumkin, Andrew L. Dannenberg, Nisha D. Botchwey Books • • • • • • • •
Allen JG, Macomber JD. Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Anthes A. The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. Barton H, Thompson S, Grant M, Burgess S. The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015. Barton H. City of Well-Being: A Radical Guide to Planning. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. Barton H, Grant M, Guise R. Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability. Third Edition. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2021. Beatley T, Jones C, Rainey R, eds. Healthy Environments, Healing Spaces. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2018. Corburn J. Healthy City Planning: From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2013. Cushing DF, Miller E. Creating Great Places: Evidence-Based Urban Design for Health and Well-Being. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2020.
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D'Onofrio R, Trusiani E. Urban Planning for Healthy European Cities. Cham: Springer, 2018. London F. Healthy Placemaking: Wellbeing through Urban Design. London: RIBA Publishing, 2019. Lopez R. The Built Environment and Public Health. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2012. Meyer MD and Elrahman OA. Transportation and Public Health: An Integrated Approach to Policy, Planning, and Implementation. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2019. Nieuwenhuijsen M, Khries H. Integrating Human Health into Urban and Transport Planning: A Framework. Cham: Springer, 2019. Sarkar C, Webster C, Gallacher J. Healthy Cities: Public Health through Urban Planning. Edward Elgar, 2014.
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American Institute of Architects, Design and Health Initiative. https://www.aia.org/pages/3461-aias-design-health-initiative. American Planning Association, Planning and Community Health Program. https://www.planning.org/nationalcenters/health/. World Health Organization Healthy cities programme. https://www.who.int/healthy_settings/types/cities/en/. WHO Europe Healthy Cities programme. https://www.euro.who.int/en/healthtopics/environment-and-health/urban-health.
Chapter 8: Social Capital and Community Design By Kasley Killam, Ichiro Kawachi Books: • • • •
Kawachi I, Subramanian SV, Kim D. Social Capital and Health. New York: Springer, 2012. Klinenberg E. Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life. New York: Crown, 2018. Oldenburg R. The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community (2nd Ed.). New York: Marlowe, 1999. Jacobs J. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage, 1961.
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Montgomery C. The Happy City Experiment. 24 December, 2014. TEDxVancouver. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WiQUzOnA5w
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Gallaudet University. DeafSpace Guidelines. n.d. https://www.gallaudet.edu/campusdesign-and-planning/deafspace. Peavey E. Connecting IRL: How the Built Environment Can Foster Social Health. HKS Inc., 2020. https://www.hksinc.com/how-we-think/research/connecting-irl-how-thebuilt-environment-can-foster-social-health/. Future Spaces Foundation. Kinship in the City. 2019. https://www.futurespacesfoundation.org/our-work/kinship-in-the-cityreport/ Loneliness Lab. Using Design to Connect Us. 2020. https://www.lonelinesslab.org/knowledge-hub/using-design-to-connect-us Wilkerson R. Socially Connected Communities: Solutions for Social Isolation. Healthy Places by Design, 2021. https://healthyplacesbydesign.org/socially-connected-communitiessolutions-for-social-isolation/
Chapter 9: Inequity, Gentrification, and Urban Health By Helen V. S. Cole, Isabelle Anguelovski For further information: In addition to published academic literature on the topics of gentrification, urban renewal/redevelopment, health equity, environmental and social injustice, and other related topics, here are a few other additional resources which are potentially useful for practicioners. Many community organizations work to promote healthy and equitable cities through affordable housing initiatives, promoting equitable access to good quality open space, fighting gentrification, energy poverty and other social and environmental injustices. Here are a few examples: • • • • • • • • •
Dudley Street Neighborhood Association www.dsni.org (Boston, MA) The Urban Displacement Project https://www.urbandisplacement.org (International) The Anti-eviction Mapping project https://antievictionmap.com (US) Los Angeles Regional Open Space & Affordable Housing Collaborative (LA ROSAH) (Los Angeles, CA) The Downwinders at Risk- Cleaner Air through Community Action (Dallas, TX) La Bajada Neighborhood Association (Dallas, TX) Partnership for Southern Equity https://psequity.org/ (Atlanta, GA) West Atlanta Watershed Alliance http://wawa-online.org/ (Atlanta, GA) Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition https://www.duwamishcleanup.org/ (Seattle, WA)
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El Sindicat de Llogaters (The Renter’s Union) https://sindicatdellogateres.org/ (Barcelona, Spain)
Researchers and organizations have produced many reports, often summarizing evidence, for policy-makers and practitioners. For example: •
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Leveraging the Built Environment For Health Equity: Promising Interventions for Small and Medium-Size Cities https://www.urban.org/research/publication/leveraging-builtenvironment-health-equity/view/full_report Green trajectories book: Municipal trends and strategies for greening in Europe, Canada, and the United States – Barcelona Lab for Urban Enviromental Justice and Sustainability http://www.bcnuej.org/projects/green-trajectories/ Duwamish Valley Cumulative Health Impacts Analysis: Seattle, Washington https://www.duwamishcleanup.org/chia
Chapter 10: Healthy Places Across the Lifespan By Nisha Botchwey, Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, Jordana L. Maisel, Howard Frumkin • •
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AARP Livability Index https://livabilityindex.aarp.org World Health Organization Features of age-friendly cities checklist http://www.who.int/ageing/publications/Age_friendly_cities_checklist.pdf and http://www.who.int/ageing/publications/Global_age_friendly_cities_Guide_ English.pdf Cities for All https://cities4all.org UNESCO’s ICTs for persons living with disabilities https://en.unesco.org/partnerships/partnering/icts-persons-living-disabilities APA Policy Guide on Aging in Community https://www.planning.org/policy/guides/adopted/agingincommunity.htm
Chapter 12: Healthy Homes By David E. Jacobs, Amanda Reddy Educational Resources: • • • •
Help Yourself to a Healthy Home: https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/DOC_11880.PDF National Center for Healthy Housing: https://nchh.org/ US Department of Housing and Urban Development: https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/healthy_homes/hhi US Environmental Protection Agency: https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq
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Enterprise Green Communities Criteria 2020. https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/solutions-and-innovation/green-communities LEED for Homes: https://www.usgbc.org/resources/leed-homes US Environmental Protection Agency: https://www.epa.gov/indoorairplus World Health Organization Housing and Health Guidelines. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-housing-and-health-guidelines
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American Lung Association Master Home Environmentalist: https://www.lung.org/local-content/wa/mhe-program Boston Public Health Commission: https://bphc.org/whatwedo/healthy-homesenvironment/healthy-homes. Seattle-King County Healthy Homes: https://www.housingconsortium.org/wpcontent/uploads/2017/02/WhitePaper_GettingtoHealthyHousing_vFINAL.pdf
Chapter 14: Healthy Healthcare Settings By Craig Zimring, Jennifer R. DuBose, Bea Sennewald • • • • •
Center for Health Design https://www.healthdesign.org, Institute for Healthcare Improvement http://www.ihi.org Institute for Patient and Family Centered Care. https://www.ipfcc.org Health Care Without Harm (https://noharm.org) Practice Greenhealth (https://practicegreenhealth.org)
Chapter 16: Contact with Nature By Howard Frumkin •
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Children & Nature Network: www.childrenandnature.org/. The Children & Nature Network (C&NN) links researchers, educators, other individuals, and organizations dedicated to children’s health and well-being through nature contact. The website offers relevant news, links to many organizations and local initiatives, and summaries of recent scientific research. Green Cities: Good Health: http://depts.washington.edu/hhwb/. This academic partnership between the University of Washington and the US Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Program, emphasizes the health benefits of green urban design. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Landscape and Human Health Laboratory: lhhl.illinois.edu/. This academic unit is a leading center for research on the health benefits of nature contact in the built environment.
Chapter 17: Climate Change, Cities, and Health By José G. Siri, Katherine Britt Indvik •
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Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories. World Resources Institute. https://www.wri.org/publication/global-protocol-community-scalegreenhouse-gas-emission-inventories. A widely accepted accounting and reporting standard for cities. UN Sustainable Development Goals. https://sdgs.un.org/ The web site of the SDGs, the framework for global efforts at sustainability and equity. C40 Cities. https://www.c40.org/ A network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change. Urban Climate Change Research Network. https://uccrn.ei.columbia.edu/ A global consortium of researchers from over 150 cities, based at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, dedicated to analyzing climate change mitigation and adaptation from an urban perspective. Its Second Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities is a useful source of information. Global Warming of 1.5ºC. An IPCC Special Report. IPCC Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. In particular: “Chapter 11: Human Health, Impacts, Adaptation, and Co-Benefits” These two IPCC reports, both available at https://www.ipcc.ch/, provide definitive information on the science of climate change, including health aspects, and including impacts on cities.
Chapter 18: Community Resilience and Healthy Places By José G. Siri, Katherine Britt Indvik, Kimberley O’Sullivan •
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US Green Building Council RELi 2.0 Rating Guidelines for Resilient Design and Construction (https://www.usgbc.org/resources/reli-20-rating-guidelines-resilientdesign-and-construction) International Organization for Standardization: ISO 37123:2019, Sustainable cities and communities — Indicators for resilient cities (https://www.iso.org/standard/70428.html) Making Cities Sustainable and Resilient Campaign: implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 – 2030 at the local level (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partnership/?p=31784) Rockfeller Foundation, 100 Resilient Cities (https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/100resilient-cities/) US National Response Framework (https://www.fema.gov/emergencymanagers/national-preparedness/frameworks/response) and National Incident Management System (https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/nims)