Towards Healthy Cities: Comparing Conditions for Change (EURICUR Series (European Institute for Comparative Urban Research))

by Dr. Alexander Otgaar, Jeroen Klijs, and Professor Leo van den Berg

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This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities most effective. The authors argue that three conditions are essential for such investments: citizen empowerment, corporate responsibility and a coordinated improvement of urban health conditions. Using an integrated approach to health in line with the Healthy Cities philosophy of the World Health Organization, case studies in Helsinki, Liverpool, London, Udine and Vancouver are not only used to demonstrate the relevance of these conditions, but also to show how actors in these cities are trying to meet these conditions.

  • ISBN13 9781409488934
  • Publish Date 28 November 2012 (first published 23 December 2010)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 20 January 2022
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited
  • Edition New edition
  • Format eBook (EPUB)
  • Pages 134
  • Language English