Making Healthy Places, Second Edition: Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability

"No other book comes close to this one in covering the vast and growing body of research driving best practices for designing healthy places. Its much-expanded and updated content makes this an essential resource for everyone involved in teaching, designing, retrofitting, and administering built environments to improve public and personal health."

Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director MS Urban Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, and co-author, "Retrofitting Suburbia"

"This is a remarkable compilation of the evidence behind the effectiveness of healthy community design as a tool for both individual and population health improvement. Making Healthy Places, Second Edition  is an essential text for all who in their research, academic study, or public health practice strive to master the interface between the built environment and human health."

Georges C. Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association

"Making Healthy Places, Second Edition, illustrates how and why every city can become an engine of biodiversity, human diversity, health, and joy. This book should be required reading for every mayor, urban planner, school board president, residential and commercial developer, and community organizer, among others. There will be a test."

Richard Louv, author of "Last Child in the Woods," "Vitamin N", and "The Nature Principle"

"This is an absolutely remarkable book that explains the health impacts of urban design, planning, and construction decisions and how to enhance mobility, manage neighborhood growth, and improve quality of life for all residents. Making Healthy Places, Second Edition fully captures the challenges and solutions. It is a must read."

Ron Sims, former Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development

"This second edition of Making Healthy Places is an extraordinary book. It provides a rich and comprehensive resource for students, professionals and others. It manages to address the broad spectrum of challenges and opportunities facing the built environment in way that is very readable whilst still providing enough detail to be enormously valuable. It is essential reading!"

Michael Davies, Professor of Building Physics and Environment, University College London

"If it isn't required reading for students of all our built environment disciplines, it ought to be. Timely, expansive and inspiring."

Lesley Lokko, African Futures Institute

"Imagine if you could invite hundreds of the wisest and most insightful advisors into helping your community address the inter-connected challenges of climate change, inequity, racism and health disparities. Imagine the amazing progress you could make! That's what Making Healthy Places, Second Edition does. By bringing together leading researchers, thinkers, students and practitioners Drs. Botchwey, Dannenberg and Frumkin have developed the essential guide to one of the most powerful solutions available."

Diane Regas, President and CEO of the Trust for Public Land

"The foundation of the design and planning professions in the United States is the protection of public health, safety, and welfare. As a result, every architect, city planner, and landscape architect should be knowledgeable about public health. Making Healthy Places, Second Edition provides an outstanding resource about how to design and plan for our well-being. The COVID pandemic has dramatically reinforced the need for healthy built environments. The editors and authors of Making Healthy Places, Second Edition address the lessons learned from COVID for design and planning. As a result, it is a perfect post-pandemic book."

Frederick Steiner, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design