Citation
Barton, H., Grant, M. and Guise, R. (2003), "Shaping Neighbourhoods", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 14 No. 3, pp. 425-425. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2003.14.3.425.5
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
This book presents the results of a three‐year research project on how to plan healthy and sustainable neighbourhoods. The initiative is an undertaking of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Cities at the University of the West of England. The results are being disseminated in this comprehensive desktop guide for planners, designers, developers and communities. It provides detailed and integrated advice showing the practicality of retrofitting towns and cities so that the needs of everybody, rich and poor, young and old, are recognised, while ensuring sustainable resource management and economic vitality.
The guide is a practical guide for all those involved in the development of both rural towns and urban neighbourhoods. It suggests that the investors – the house‐builders, commercial developers; health, education and transport authorities; the voluntary organisations – have as much responsibility for ensuring healthy neighbourhoods as the planning authorities and the local people themselves. The guide offers detailed advice, checklists and examples showing how to balance all the competing demands.
For further information about the project see: http://www.sponpress.com/planning