Cities for life : how communities can recover from trauma and rebuild for health / Jason Corburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corburn, Jason, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Social aspects.

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns--Psychological aspects.

Cities and towns--Health aspects.

City and town life.

Public health.

Psychic trauma.

Physical Description:

xv, 269 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press, [2021]

Summary:

"What if cities around the world actively worked to promote the health and healing of all of their residents? Cities contribute to the traumas that cause unhealthy stress, with segregated neighborhoods, insecure housing, few playgrounds, environmental pollution, and unsafe streets, particularly for the poor and residents who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Some cities around the world are already helping their communities heal by investing more in peacemaking and parks than in policing; focusing on community decision-making instead of data surveillance; changing regulations to permit more libraries than liquor stores; and building more affordable housing than highways. These cities are declaring racism a public health and climate change crisis, and taking the lead in generating equitable outcomes. In Cities for Life, public health expert Jason Corburn shares lessons from three of these cities: Richmond, California; Medellín, Colombia; and Nairobi, Kenya. Corburn draws from his work with citizens, activists, and decision-makers in these cities over a ten-year period, as individuals and communities worked to heal from trauma—from gun violence, housing and food insecurity, and poverty. Corburn shows how any community can rebuild their social institutions, practices, and policies to be more focused on healing and health. This means not only centering those most traumatized in decision-making, Corburn explains, but confronting historically discriminatory, exclusionary, and racist urban institutions, and promoting healing-focused practices, place-making, and public policies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Designed for Life or Death

Richmond, California: The Industrial City by the Bay

Medellín, Colombia

Nairobi, Kenya, and the Mukuru Informal Settlement

Cities of Trauma or Healing?

Reducing Urban Violence through Street Love

Slum Scientists Diagnosing Traumas

Cocreating Places for Urban Health and Healing

Resilience and Climate Justice in Medellín

Putting Health Equity into All Urban Policies

Conclusion: Toward Cities That Heal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781642831726

1642831727

OCLC:

1249071530