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Urban health : readings in the social, built, and physical environments of U.S. cities / edited by H. Patricia Hynes and Russ Lopez.

Title: Urban health : readings in the social, built, and physical environments of U.S. cities / edited by H. Patricia Hynes and Russ Lopez.
Publication: Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2009.

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xxiii, 302 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"New responses to the urban environment have arisen in the late 20th and early 21st centuries; responses that provide grounded and cohesive insights and plans of action to confront social inequality, health disparity, and environmental injustice in U.S. cities." "Urban Health is a collection of 13 articles that document action from these incisive and dimensioned responses. The authors introduce each set of articles with their own insightful analysis. These critical writings on the social, built, and physical environments offer a paradigm of environment protection that is rooted in civil rights for social and racial equality and that considers the environment as the place where people live, work, play, and pray."--Jacket.

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Contents

The age of extremes: concentrated affluence and poverty in the twenty-first century / Douglas S. Massey -- Health inequities in the United States: prospects and solutions / Dennis Raphael -- To mitigate, resist, or undo: addressing structural influences on the health of urban populations / Arline T. Geronimus -- Neighborhoods and violent crime: a multilevel study of collective efficacy / Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls -- Housing and health: time again for public health action / James Krieger and Donna L. Higgins -- Indoor environments and health: moving into the 21st century / Jonathan M. Samet and John D. Spengler -- Urban sprawl and public health / Howard Frumkin -- Obesity, physical activity, and the urban environment: public health research needs / Russ Lopez and H. Patricia Hynes -- Health, wealth, and air pollution: advancing theory and methods / Marie S. O'Neill ... [et al.] -- Examining urban brownfields through the public health "macroscope" / Jill S. Litt, Nga L. Tran, and Thomas A. Burke -- A current appraisal of toxic wastes and race in the United States, 2007 / Robin Saha -- Urban horticulture in the contemporary United States: personal and community benefits / H. Patricia Hynes and Genevieve Howe -- Cities: the vital core / Joel Rogers.

ISBN

0763752452 (pbk.)
9780763752453 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008014880

OCLC

219263385
SCSB-12251335

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Harvard Library