Cities for life : how communities can recover from trauma and rebuild for health / Jason Corburn.
"Imagine a city that actively works to promote the health and healing of all of its residents. What if that city acknowledges its part in creating the traumas that cause unhealthy stress, such as segregated neighborhoods, insecure housing, few playgrounds, environmental pollution, and unsafe st...
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[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: Designed for Life or Death
- Box 1: Richmond, California: The Industrial City by the Bay
- Box 2: Medellín, Colombia
- Box 3: Nairobi, Kenya, and the Mukuru Informal Settlement
- Chapter 1: Cities of Trauma or Healing?
- Chapter 2: Reducing Urban Violence through Street Love
- Chapter 3: Slum Scientists Diagnosing Traumas
- Chapter 4: Cocreating Places for Urban Health and Healing
- Chapter 5: Resilience and Climate Justice in Medellín
- Chapter 6: Putting Health Equity into All Urban Policies
- Conclusion: Toward Cities That Heal
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author.