Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Planning and design for healthy city has drawn increasingly extensive attention.On the one hand, urban environmental issues have become prominent, especially air pollution caused by industrialization in developing countries; on the other hand, urban residents' demand for physical and mental health calls for physical space to promote the quality of life.Based on theoretical and empirical researches, this paper explores significant spatial factors in healthy city planning and their correlation with public health in different approaches.In order to reduce pollution and its impact on human as well as encourage exercise, the correlations are elaborated from four perspectives: land use, spatial form, road and transport, green space and open space, with a view to provide basis for healthy city planning and its related studies.
Source: Urban Planning International
Authors: Lan Wang, Shuwen Liao, Xiaojing Zhao
Language: English
Topic: Urban Green Space and Health
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2509505480