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Healthy Cities and the Built Environment

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Author: Duhl, Leonard

Source: Built Environment, Volume 31, Number 4, 1 November 2005, pp. 356-361(6)

Publisher: Alexandrine Press

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.2005.31.4.356

Here, the effective founding father of the Healthy Cities Programme provides an overview of its twenty-year history. As he explains too often health has been equated with the absence of illness, and hence with medicine and medical care. But today, health is being redefined as quality of life and general well-being. In this approach, health is a multi-disciplinary phenomenon: we must begin to look at everything that impinges on the human being. The total physical and social environment affects human development, as does a particular culture, and even the weather – and the constant interactions between all the parts.

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 November 2005

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  • Built Environment is published quarterly in March, June, September and December. With an emphasis on crossing disciplinary boundaries and providing global perspective, each issue focuses on a single subject of contemporary interest to practitioners, academics and students working in a wide range of disciplines. Issues are guest-edited by established international experts who not only commission contributions, but also oversee the peer-reviewing process in collaboration with the Editors.

    Subject areas include: architecture; conservation; economic development; environmental planning; health; housing; regeneration; social issues; spatial planning; sustainability; urban design; and transport. All issues include reviews of recent publications.

    The journal is abstracted in Geo Abstracts, Sage Urban Studies Abstracts, and Journal of Planning Literature, and is indexed in the Avery Index to Architectural Publications.

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