Healthy Cities

by Kushner, James A.

• ISBN13: 9781594603358
• ISBN10: 1594603359
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-03
• Publisher: CAROLINA ACADEMIC PRESS

Summary

Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, CA. Explores legal mechanisms to integrate health and urban design policy. Topics include health demands, housing policy, zoning, inadequacies of comprehensive planning, recreation planning, fiscal zoning, decongesting and densification solutions, and more. For public policy makers. Softcover.

Table of Contents

Automobiles	p. 3
The environment	p. 5
Health demands	p. 7
Housing policy	p. 11
Zoning	p. 15
The comprehensive plan	p. 19
The inadequacies of comprehensive planning	p. 23
Zoning problems	p. 27
The inadequacy of transportation planning	p. 31
The project development review system	p. 33
Recreation planning	p. 37
Home rule	p. 43
Automobiles vs. pedestrians	p. 45
Fiscal zoning	p. 47
Segregation	p. 51
Health planning and sprawl	p. 55
Sprawl vs. the compact city	p. 57
Smart new urbanism	p. 61
Decongestion and densification solutions	p. 67
Subsidies and the 1-2-3-4 program for health	p. 75
Commuting	p. 81
Collisions	p. 85
Civility and congestion	p. 93
Air pollution	p. 97
Land use and transportation	p. 101
Sprawl and transport	p. 103
Parking	p. 107
Traffic reform	p. 109
Housing markets, housing policy, and urban sprawl	p. 119
Housing solutions : physical and economic health	p. 123
Housing and neighbourhood security	p. 127
Homelessness, new tenures, and special populations	p. 131
Housing design	p. 135
The health costs of sprawl	p. 141
Urban planning and health	p. 155
The post-sedentary city	p. 161
Healthier solutions	p. 171
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