City of Well-being

A radical guide to planning

By: Hugh Barton

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Paperback | 17 November 2016 | Edition Number 1

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Town planning is deeply implicated in both the planetary crisis of climate change and the personal crises of unhealthy lifestyle, both as cause and potential remedy. While the core concept of seeing settlements as providing the human habitat is widely accepted, all too often there is a failure to carry it through systematically. The original root of town planning was concern for human health and quality of life, andCity of Well-Being demonstrates how planners can recapture that initial agenda using the tools and techniques of today.

This book is about town and urban planning as a generic skill - not about the legal systems and procedures which are distinct in each country, but the insights and skills which apply irrespective of the institutional context.City of Well-being links the activity of planning with the underpinning values of health, well-being and sustainable development. It offers a systematic account available of how to plan towns and cities that offer humane, inclusive, liveable and ecologically sustainable environment.

Hugh Barton challenges the prevailing view that mediation and co-ordination are enough. He links the scientific evidence in relation to human well-being and the built environment to strategies for analysis, policies and plans.City of Well-Being deals with the interplay of different scales and contexts of planning - city regions, rural towns, neighbourhoods and individual development projects. It draws extensively on best practice and recent research, dealing with realities not wishful thinking, providing tools and a holistic philosophy for the professional planner, and always maintaining a focus on core technical skills: spatial analysis, policy and design at varied scales, collaborative decision-processes involving all sectors, and systematic evidence-based appraisal.

City of Well-Being sets out an agenda for twenty-first century planning that combines the principles that have always been at the heart of urban planning with the most recent of best practice. The result is a blueprint for how modern planning should be.

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"Marrying vision with practical reality, Barton provides lessons that are genuinely transferrable to the everyday working activities of planners and other professionals (such as the health sector)."

Peter Fawcett, University of Liverpool, TPR 88 (6) 2017

"We live in the age of the city and yet many modern cities are inhospitable, unhealthy places. Hugh Barton has done it again - he brings together traditional best practice with pioneering insights of how to make good human habitats. City of Well-being is no less than an urgently needed blueprint for creating healthy, liveable and sustainable cities. This is essential reading for all concerned with creating a worthy new home for humanity."

Herbert Girardet, author, Creating Regenerative Cities

"This is the city planning book I have been waiting for - tackling health, community, climate and our mistress, master and urban disaster, the car! Hugh Barton brings a lifetime of experience, research and common sense to put people at the heart of our placemaking process."

George Ferguson CBE PPRIBA, Mayor of Bristol 2012-16

"This is a majestic book that takes us on a wonderful and passionate journey about the possibilities and potential of planning into the 21st Century. With people at its centre, and the 'time bombs' of chronic disease and climate change ticking away, Hugh Barton firmly establishes health and wellbeing as the rightful cornerstones of a planning practice that matters and makes a difference to us all. Eloquently argued, beautifully written and scholarly in its comprehensive scope, this book exposes the ironies of contemporary planning and how we can, and must, take a better way to ensure a happy and healthy future for all life and the planet upon which it depends."

Susan Thompson, Professor of Planning and Associate Director (City Wellbeing) City Futures Research Centre, The University of New South Wales, Australia

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