1st Edition
Urban Design and Human Flourishing Creating Places that Enable People to Live Healthy and Fulfilling Lives
Introduction: Urban design and human flourishing
Tim G. Townshend
1. What is a healthy place? Models for cities and neighbourhoods
Ann Forsyth
2. Validating a comprehensive plan scoring system for healthy community design in League City, Texas
Jennifer A. Horney, Caroline Dwyer, Bea Vendrell-Velez and Galen Newman
3. The effects of New Urbanism on public health
Hamid Iravani and Venkat Rao
4. Suburban shopping malls as spaces for community health and human flourishing: an Aotearoa New Zealand case study
Chantal Mawer and Rebecca Kiddle
5. Challenging the visual: learning from the mobility narratives of visually impaired persons
Jayne M. Jeffries, Rose Gilroy and Tim Townshend
6. Well-being age and space
Valeria Minucciani and Nilufer Saglar Onay
Biography
Tim G. Townshend is Professor of Urban Design for Health and Leader of the Global Urban Research Unit (GURU) ‘Urban Design and Human Flourishing’ theme at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Tim has established an international profile in health/built environment through a steady output of publications over two decades that has forged links between disciplinary divides.
