Healthy Cities

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Healthy Cities is written by Jason Corburn and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 113879421X (ISBN 10) and 9781138794214 (ISBN 13).

While the fields of modern city planning and public health emerged together in the 19th century to address urban inequities and infectious diseases, they were largely disconnected for much of the 20th century. In the 21st century, planning and public health are reconnecting to address the new health challenges of urbanization and globalization ' from racial and ethnic disparities to land use sprawl to providing basic services to the millions of urban poor around the world living in informal slum settlements. Reconnecting the fields of planning ...