Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
- ISBN-10
- 0262013312
- ISBN-13
- 9780262013314
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 282
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Author
- Jason Corburn
Description
A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.
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