1st Edition
Urban Healthonomics How to create healthy cities that accelerate economic growth
By Martin Prince-Parrott
Copyright 2025
256 Pages
by
RIBA Publishing
256 Pages
by
RIBA Publishing
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How can we design cities that radically improve our health and accelerate economic growth?
The need for bold solutions and innovative commercial strategies has never been greater. Cities face mounting, converging challenges: climate change, economic recovery, spiralling debt and ageing populations.
To address these issues, urban leaders must find ways to reduce operational and healthcare... Read more
About the Author
Dedication
Introduction: First principles of urban healthonomics
Chapter 1: Throwing Shade
Chapter 2: Invisible Killer
Chapter 3: Natural Health Service
Chapter 4: Housing as a Vaccine
Chapter 5: Bikes Do So Much
Chapter 6: Alienation and Participation
Chapter 7: Urban Machines
Afterword Almanack
Index
References
Image credits
Biography
Martin Prince-Parrott is an award-winning architect turned real estate developer who leads SUB\URBAN WORKSHOP, a climate-tech start-up focused on increasing the GDP of cities by decarbonising + reinventing the suburbs. He has spent the last decade designing and developing a billion-pounds worth of residential and commercial real estate.
