City of Well-being

Name: City of Well-being | A radical guide to planning
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A radical guide to planning

Hugh Barton(Autor*in)

Routledge (Verlag)

Erschienen am 10. November 2016

304 Seiten

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Beschreibung

City of Well-being provides a radical and holistic introduction to the science and art of town planning. It starts from the premise that the purpose of planning is the health, well-being and sustainable quality of life of people. Drawing on current and historic examples it offers inspiration, information and an integrated perspective which challenges all professions and decision-makers that affect the urban environment. It is both authoritative and readable, designed for students, practitioners, politicians and civil society.

The science. Summarizing the most recent research, the book demonstrates the interrelationships between the huge issues of obesity, unhealthy lifestyles, inequality, mental illness, climate change and environmental quality. The radical implications for transport, housing, economic, social and energy policies are spelt out.

The art and politics. The book examines how economic development really happens, and how spatial decisions reinforce or undermine good intentions. It searches for the creative strategies, urban forms and neighbourhood designs that can marry the ideal with the real. The relationship of planning and politics is tackled head-on, leading to conclusions about the role of planners, communities and development agencies in a pluralistic society. Healthy planning principles could provide a powerful logical motivation for all practitioners.

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"Marrying vision with practical reality, Barton provides lessons that are genuinely transferrable to the everyday working activities of planners and other professionals (such as the health sector)."

Peter Fawcett, University of Liverpool, TPR 88 (6) 2017

"We live in the age of the city and yet many modern cities are inhospitable, unhealthy places. Hugh Barton has done it again - he brings together traditional best practice with pioneering insights of how to make good human habitats. City of Well-being is no less than an urgently needed blueprint for creating healthy, liveable and sustainable cities. This is essential reading for all concerned with creating a worthy new home for humanity."

Herbert Girardet, author, Creating Regenerative Cities

"This is the city planning book I have been waiting for - tackling health, community, climate and our mistress, master and urban disaster, the car! Hugh Barton brings a lifetime of experience, research and common sense to put people at the heart of our placemaking process."

George Ferguson CBE PPRIBA, Mayor of Bristol 2012-16

"This is a majestic book that takes us on a wonderful and passionate journey about the possibilities and potential of planning into the 21st Century. With people at its centre, and the 'time bombs' of chronic disease and climate change ticking away, Hugh Barton firmly establishes health and wellbeing as the rightful cornerstones of a planning practice that matters and makes a difference to us all. Eloquently argued, beautifully written and scholarly in its comprehensive scope, this book exposes the ironies of contemporary planning and how we can, and must, take a better way to ensure a happy and healthy future for all life and the planet upon which it depends."

Susan Thompson, Professor of Planning and Associate Director (City Wellbeing) City Futures Research Centre, The University of New South Wales, Australia

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Inhalt

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

I Orientation

Prologue: contrasting city scenarios

1. Putting people at the heart of planning

Introduction: the purpose of planning

Time-bombs of health, climate and urbanization

Planning at the cross-roads

Reflection

2. A framework for understanding

Towards an eco-system model of cities

The settlement health map

Interpretation of the health map

Conclusion: ethics for planners

II Inspiration

3. Shafts of light from the past

Classical designers and the city of Priene

The Mediaeval city: Siena

Grand designs: Paris re-imagined

Ethical entrepreneurs and Saltaire

4. The emergence of modern planning

The public health revolution

Ebenezer Howard and Garden Cities

The pioneers in Britain and America

Planning as civic design

The British new towns

Gaining the country but losing the plot

5. Beacons of hope

Introduction: Healthy Cities

Copenhagen: city of cyclists

Kuopio: city of lakes and forests

Freiburg: city of short distances

Portland: breaking the neo-liberal taboo

Lessons from inspirational cities

III Cognition: understanding people and environment

6. Spatial planning for physical well-being

Obesity, health and physical activity

Active travel - walking and cycling

Active recreation

Healthy diet

Cautions and counsels

7. Planning for mental and social well-being

Nature, greenspace, sun and sound

Social networks and community

Healthy, diverse neighbourhoods

Social capital and empowerment

Spatial planning recommendations

8. Planning for place equity

Social justice and health inequalities

Planning for all

Work, income and spatial policy

Housing and living conditions

Movement and accessibility

9. Climate change and settlement planning

The science of climate change

Greenhouse gases, energy and planning

Sustainable energy strategy

Human ecology

10. The local ecology of cities

Ecological resilience

Green infrastructure

Air quality and planning

Sustainable urban water systems

Biodiversity

Local food production

IV Navigation: a route map for healthy planning

Criteria for judging healthy urban policy

11. Reality check: the economics of land and development

The life-cycle of a plot

Players in the development game

Land and housing markets

How land values shape the city

Urban renewal and managing the market

12. Sustainable urban form

Understanding urban form

Centrifugal and centripetal forces

Decentralization versus the compact city

Polycentricity and linearity

Five key urban form decision areas

13. Healthy neighbourhood design

Introduction: the significance of locality

The shape of neighbourhoods

Spatial analysis and density

The quality of place

Conclusion: urban design

14. Urban dynamics

Introduction: strategic planning issues

Understanding the economic base of a city

Population and housing

Matching economic activity and population

Transport infrastructure and economic development

V. Perspiration: land, power and the planning process

14. The governance of land

Is planning really necessary?

Private and community property rights

Comparative planning systems

Local government powers

Conclusion

16. The planning process and the role of planners

Dimensions of planning: technical, political and executive

From design to the rational planning process

Heroic versus humdrum planning

The medium is the message: collaborative planning

Testing theory against practice

Ethical planning

17. Putting principle into practice

Making decisions in a pluralist society: engaging communities

A cyclic planning process

Case study: Stroud town centre Neighbourhood Plan

Converting healthy rhetoric into healthy decisions

Conclusion

Epilogue

Seven conclusions if we are serious about planning cities for well-being

Final thought

Index

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