Healthy Cities of Tomorrow: the Case for Large Scale Built Environment–Health Studies

Sarkar, Chinmoy; Webster, Chris

doi:10.1007/s11524-016-0122-1

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“…When John Snow employed a primitive GIS technique with point-based cholera epidemic data, the science of healthy cities changed and so did the built environmental response [ 36 , 37 ]. A new science of healthy cities is rapidly emerging as a result of large spatialized, gene-environment data platforms [ 38 , 39 , 40 ]. The emphasis in the past decade has been on sedentary disease.…”

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The nature of cities and the Covid-19 pandemic

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Webster

Kumari

et al. 2020

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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The nature of cities and the Covid-19 pandemic

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Kumari

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“…Whereas the aforementioned risk and protective factors are relatively well understood, how the built, natural, and social environments together affect mental disorders remains less clear ( Tost et al, 2015 , Stickley et al, 2017 , Adli et al, 2017 , Heinz et al, 2013 , Peen et al, 2010 , Prüss-Üstün and Corvalán, 2006 , Nieuwenhuijsen, 2016 ). There is increasing evidence that the built environment (e.g., urban morphology, land use, and street layout) might be a determinant of mental health ( Rao et al, 2007 , Sarkar and Webster, 2017 ). Although the existing knowledge is inconclusive, and the individual environments were frequently studied in isolation ( Mair et al, 2008 , Weich et al, 2002 , Evans, 2003 , Saarloos et al, 2011 , James et al, 2017 ), it seems that, for example, higher urban densities increase social interactions that may decrease the risk of psychotic disorders ( Kawachi and Berkman, 2001 ).…”

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Toward dynamic urban environmental exposure assessments in mental health research

Helbich

2018

Environmental Research

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It is increasingly recognized that mental disorders are affected by both personal characteristics and environmental exposures. The built, natural, and social environments can either contribute to or buffer against metal disorders. Environmental exposure assessments related to mental health typically rely on neighborhoods within which people currently live. In this article, I call into question such neighborhood-based exposure assessments at one point in time, because human life unfolds over space and across time. To circumvent inappropriate exposure assessments and to better grasp the etiologies of mental disease, I argue that people are exposed to multiple health-supporting and harmful exposures not only during their daily lives, but also over the course of their lives. This article aims to lay a theoretical foundation elucidating the impact of dynamic environmental exposures on mental health outcomes. I examine, first, the possibilities and challenges for mental health research to integrate people's environmental exposures along their daily paths and, second, how exposures over people's residential history might affect mental health later in life. To push the borders of scientific inquiries, I stress that only such mobility-based approaches facilitate an exploration of exposure duration, exposure sequences, and exposure accumulation.

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“…Most of this literature shows an inverted U-shaped curve relationship with a positive impact in the cost-benefits of beginning agglomeration but negative with higher figures. See, for example, Sarkar and Webster [66] and [67] regarding the relevance of combining density with green spaces, pedestrian areas and other facilities to avoid health problems in the city. In the same line, Gruebner [68] highlight the relationship between social isolation and discrimination as well as poverty in the neighbourhood contribute to the mental health burden and the built environment.…”

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Recent Literature about Urban Sprawl: A Renewed Relevance of the Phenomenon from the Perspective of Environmental Sustainability

Morollón

Yserte

2020

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The urban sprawl phenomenon has attracted the attention of social researchers since the mid-20th century. It seemed that all relevant aspects had been extensively studied and that it would be difficult to produce new studies with significant contributions. However, in the last decade, we have witnessed a revival of the literature on urban sprawl for three main reasons: (i) the existence of new methodologies to measure the phenomenon based on digital cartography and geo-referenced information, (ii) new hypotheses about the relevance of the formation of metropolitan areas not institutionally integrated into urban sprawl in many places and, mainly, (iii) the role of urban density in the environmental sustainability of cities. The recent literature on this third aspect has grown the most and around which it seems that new and interesting lines of future research will develop. The objective of this work is to present a synthetic review of the most recent literature on urban sprawl as of the end of the second decade of the XXI century. This review can serve to recapitulate the growing consensus that is being formed on the lower environmental sustainability of low-density cities and diffuse limits.

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Healthy Cities of Tomorrow: the Case for Large Scale Built Environment–Health Studies

Cited by 53 publications

References 135 publications

The nature of cities and the Covid-19 pandemic

The nature of cities and the Covid-19 pandemic

Toward dynamic urban environmental exposure assessments in mental health research

Recent Literature about Urban Sprawl: A Renewed Relevance of the Phenomenon from the Perspective of Environmental Sustainability

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