Designing Healthy and Liveable Cities: Creating Sustainable Urban Regeneration

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In the last ten years, concepts such as urban health and liveability have become ever more present in urban planning studies. Many companies rank the most liveable city in the world or in a nation, and many indicators are used to try to measure factors which can report the health of a place by investigating it in different ways. While it is possible to understand why a place is liveable – due to the liveability and health concepts that are being more and more explored in urban studies, and the strong influence coming from other disciplines – it is difficult to design a place that is certain to be healthy and liveable. Accordingly, aim of this book is, after the definition of the field of investigation concerning sustainable regeneration trough topics such as resilience, adaptation, health, and mixed connections, to illustrate the present-day approaches to the analysis and design of healthy places, and in particular the original Healthy Pl@ce Design method, flexible and repeatable in different contexts. The method aims to identify sustainable urban liveability and healthiness and the factors which make places liveable and healthy from users' points of view and identifying design interventions that can enhance or create both urban liveability and health. Emblematic case studies carried out in Europe, Canada and China – Bordeaux, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Madrid, Newcastle–Gateshead, Nice, Dublin, Vancouver and Wuhan – constitute the empirical part of the book, detailed with surveys, questionnaires, images and maps. The theoretical framework – built on contemporary issues – and international case studies make this book both attractive and scientific, adding a new stone on the sustainable city construction and opening it to a particularly wide readership, including scholars, students, administrators and professionals. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgement Biography Introduction Part I: Sustainable urban regeneration Chapter 1: Holistic approach Chapter 2: Resilience and adaptation Chapter 3: Healthy urban places Chapter 4: Mixed connections Chapter 5: Indicators Part II: Mapping healthy and liveable places Chapter 6: 15-Minute City Chapter 7: Flexible city Chapter 8: Soft city Chapter 9: Smart city Part III: The Healthy Pl@ce Design method Chapter 10: Analysis Phase 1: Definition of the study area Phase 2: People and activities Phase 3: The place from peoples’ points of view Phase 4: The traditional analysis Phase 5: Mapping health and liveability Chapter 11: Design Phase 6: The consistence with the Charter of principles Phase 7: The design ideas from the users’ points of view Phase 8: The project interventions Chapter 12: Healthy Pl@ce app Chapter 13: Indices Chapter 14: Observation Part IV: Case studies Chapter 15: Bordeaux The area People and activities The places from peoples’ points of view The transformation of the area The liveability and healthiness factors Designing health and liveability Conclusion Chapter 16: Copenhagen The city Urban planning strategies Superkilen Conclusion Chapter 17: Dublin The area People and activities The transformation of the area The liveability and healthiness factors Designing health and liveability Conclusion Chapter 18: Hamburg The area People and activities The transformation of the area The liveability and healthiness factors Designing health and liveability Conclusion Chapter 19: Madrid The area People and activities The places from peoples’ points of view The transformation of the area The liveability and healthiness factors Designing health and liveability Conclusion Chapter 20: Newcastle–Gateshead The city Urban planning strategies The Quayside area Conclusion Chapter 21: Nice The area People and activities The places from peoples’ points of view The transformation of the area The liveability and healthiness factors Designing health and liveability Conclusion Chapter 22: Vancouver The areas Coal Harbour. People and activities The places from peoples’ points of view The transformation of the area The liveability and healthiness factors Designing health and liveability False Creek. People and activities The places from peoples’ points of view The transformation of the area The liveability and healthiness factors Designing health and liveability Project interventions Conclusion Chapter 23: Wuhan The city People and activities The places from peoples’ points of view The transformation of the area The liveability and healthiness factors Designing health and liveability Conclusion Conclusion: Principles of Urban Health and Liveability Design References Websites Index