City of Well-Being : A Radical Guide to Planning (Paperback)

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

I Orientation

Prologue: contrasting city scenarios

• Introduction: the purpose of planning
• Time-bombs of health, climate and urbanization
• Planning at the cross-roads
• Reflection

• Towards an eco-system model of cities
• The settlement health map
• Interpretation of the health map
• Conclusion: ethics for planners

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

• 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

• 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

• Obesity, health and physical activity

• Active travel ? walking and cycling
• Active recreation
• Healthy diet
• Cautions and counsels

• Nature, greenspace, sun and sound
• Social networks and community
• Healthy, diverse neighbourhoods
• Social capital and empowerment
• Spatial planning recommendations

• Social justice and health inequalities
• Planning for all
• Work, income and spatial policy
• Housing and living conditions
• Movement and accessibility

• The science of climate change
• Greenhouse gases, energy and planning
• Sustainable energy strategy
• Human ecology

• 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

• Understanding urban form
• Centrifugal and centripetal forces
• Decentralization versus the compact city
• Polycentricity and linearity
• Five key urban form decision areas

• Introduction: the significance of locality
• The shape of neighbourhoods
• Spatial analysis and density
• The quality of place
• Conclusion: urban design

• 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

• Is planning really necessary?
• Private and community property rights
• Comparative planning systems
• Local government powers
• Conclusion

• 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

• 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

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