Towards healthy cities comparing conditions for change (Boook Review)

Abstract

Towards healthy cities comparing conditions for change, edited by Alexander Otgarr, Jeroen Klijs and Leo Van Berg, Farnham, UK, Ashgate Publishing, 2011, 134 pp., £50.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 4094 2066 8.

This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities effective. It argues that three conditions are essential: citizen empowerment, corporate responsibility and a coordinated improvement of urban health. The book uses case studies from around the world to show the importance of these conditions, and how actors are trying to meet them.