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.