Urban Development and Public Health in Dhaka, Bangladesh

2011 ◽  
pp. 281-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Baumgart ◽  
Kirsten Hackenbroch ◽  
Shahadat Hossain ◽  
Volker Kreibich
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Urban Development

scholarly journals Towards a better integration of health in urban development project: from theory to action

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Roue-Le Gall ◽  
C Deloly ◽  
B Clement ◽  
C Nassiet ◽  
J Romagon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Scientific Management ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Operational Tool

Abstract Background Despite a well knowledge about links between urban planning and health, practices’ analyze highlights the difficulty to upgrade health into urban planning decisions. To overcome this issue, the EHESP has initiated a specific research dedicated to the development of tools for a better integration of health & wellbeing at different decision-making-level (urban planning & urban development project). The objective of this presentation is to focus on one dedicated research, Isadora project, and to share how the project was carried out to enable the production of an operational tool dedicated to urban planners to better integrate health issues into their practices. Methods The scientific management team mixed various skills from public health, environment and urban planning sectors which makes easier the implementation of two key-principles of research: (i) to adopt a systemic approach to health determinants, (ii) to address urban settings through an integrated approach to public health, environment and sustainable development issues. The implementation of this interdisciplinary and intersectorial project is based on a close collaboration with a national working group composed of various professionals and academics (urban planning, environment, and health). The Isadora project deliverables results from an iterative process between all the stakeholders involved in the project. Results and conclusions First, we will present how we facilitated the working group throughout the deliverables development process and how we overcame the challenges of implementing intersectorality. Then, we will present the operational tool structured around of 15 key sheets with health focus to help professionals to integrate health at each step of an urban development project. Key messages ISadOrA project aspires to promote an evolution of urban planner’s practices in order to achieve a healthy urban development project. This ambition requires the translation of concepts into actions.

scholarly journals Honolulu’s colonial legacy of marginalization: A cycle of emergency and urban development

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 4.1-4.15
Author(s):  
Robert Hopper
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
City Space ◽  
Dialectical Process ◽  
Rough Draft

Relying heavily on newspaper archives, this article explores the ‘first rough draft’ of Honolulu’s early urban frontier to rescue the spectacle of environmental and emergency management in the early twentieth-century town of Kakaako. Analysing the interdependent discursive and material processes in response to public health crisis ‐ viewed here serving as a continuation of colonialism ‐ I show how Kakaako existed as a release valve for detritus as part of a dialectical process towards development. Spaces like Kakaako proved central to the partitioning of urban space, serving as receptacles of bio-sociocultural waste. This article details how cycles of emergency cordoned-off spaces utilized to contain, discipline or assimilate certain groups, provoking the development and evacuation of that which is judged as unfit and unworthy while engendering the notion of profitability as a necessary precondition to inhabiting city space.

Public Health and Urban Development: The Plague in Surat

1999 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Garrett Menning ◽  
Ghanshyam Shah
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Urban Development

scholarly journals Rethinking the Utility of Public Bicycles: The Development and Challenges of Station-Less Bike Sharing in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaoe Wang ◽  
Jie Huang ◽  
Michael Dunford
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Bike Sharing ◽  
The Relationship

Cycling is known to be environmentally friendly and beneficial to public health and sustainable urban development. Cycling has recently increased in Chinese cities as a result of the emergence of station-less bike-sharing systems. This study examines the emergence, rapid growth and consolidation of station-less bike-sharing systems and the role of suppliers, users and government regulators. It shows that these systems developed unevenly, growing most in large cities in eastern and south-eastern China, and explores the relationship between this spatial distribution and the nature of the service and the socio-economic characteristics of cities. To investigate patterns of, and reasons for, the use of these systems, this research also reports the results of a survey of users and non-users, identifying their gender, age, income characteristics and attitudes to station-less systems.

scholarly journals Thoughts on Urban Planning of Big Cities in China Caused by the COVID-19 Epidemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 198 ◽  
pp. 04018
Author(s):  
Huiyan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
High Intensity ◽  
Size Structure ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Big Cities ◽  
The Way

Public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 outbreak has made all industries to reexamine the way the cities have always grown. Urban planning is no exception. Based on the analysis of the development track and phenomenon of Wuhan City, this paper puts forward the planning thinking of the development of China’s big cities. According to the study, it is urgent to study the suitable size, structure and form of big cities. The consistent practice of high-intensity development needs to stop. Urban development should pay more attention to the space that can not directly generate economic benefits.

scholarly journals Distance training for professionals in the Academia das Cidades and Academia de Saúde Programs in Pernambuco

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Emmanuelly Correia de Lemos ◽  
Thassia Christina Azevedo da Silva  ◽  
Neuza Buarque de Macêdo ◽  
Mateus Gustavo Brainer ◽  
Sandra Luzia Barbosa de Souza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
State Health ◽  
Distance Training ◽  
Strategic Actions ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Planning Development

The objective of this study was to describe the experience of the development of the upgrading course in strategic actions for professionals in the Academia das Cidades e Saúde Programs, conducted by the School of Government in Public Health, together with the technical team of the Programs at the State Health Secretariat and the Secretariat for Urban Development and Housing, both from Pernambuco. For this, the experience report format was used. The course was developed through distance learning, in three stages: planning, development and evaluation. The minutes of meetings, tutors’ reports, online course monitoring files and students’ evaluations were used to describe the experience. The course was offered in 2019, in the state’s first health macro-region. Of the 156 professionals enrolled in the course, and who worked in the Programs, 100 concluded it, and positively evaluated the course, mainly in terms of changes in their work practices.

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