The world is currently witnessing its largest surge of urban growth in human history; a trend
that draws attention to the need to understand and address health impacts of urban living …

Though the concept of sustainable development originally included a clear social mandate,
for two decades this human dimension has been neglected amidst abbreviated references …

How do our everyday environments inform our activities, routines and encounters? In what
way has globalization affected the sites in which we work, relax and interact? Is there still a …

Anthropogenic climate change is a quintessentially modern problem in its historical origins
and discursive framing, but how well does modernist thinking provide us with the tools to …

By definition, sustainable development includes environmental, economic and social
dimensions. Scholars have paid little attention to the latter, although greater interest has …

The city is the most frequently inhabited environment for most people worldwide. Cities can
influence health and disease in many ways, encompassing benefits for health as well as …

Achieving higher density development has become, as part of sustainable development, a
core principle of the contemporary planning professional. The appeal of density is its …

Responding to the international trend of urban population decline, a sustainable urban form
has been pursued around the world, with the compact city movement a typical example …

Among the places worst hit by climate change are areas of high urban growth in the warm,
humid tropics of Asia and Latin America. In these places, the global trend of rapid …

'Urban sustainability'currently receives widespread and generally enthusiastic endorsement,
yet concerns are emerging that recent expressions of the concept may actually be working …