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1. City of Well-being

   A guide to the science and art of settlement planning

   By Hugh Barton

   To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
2. Shaping Neighbourhoods

   For Local Health and Global Sustainability

   By Hugh Barton, Marcus Grant, Richard Guise

   Current policies in planning emphasise the importance of rejuvenating neighbourhoods. This new guide bridges the gap between rhetoric and reality, promoting an interprofessional and collaborative approach to making localities work. The objective is to design neighbourhoods that are healthy, safe,...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
3. Shaping Neighbourhoods

   For Local Health and Global Sustainability, 2nd Edition

   By Hugh Barton, Marcus Grant, Richard Guise

   This substantially revised and important second edition responds to a changing agenda in government policy and planning practice, putting issues of climate change and obesity at the centre of its concern. This guide ensures you: understand the underlying principles for planning healthy and...

   Published January 11th 2010 by Routledge
4. Healthy Urban Planning

   By Hugh Barton, Catherine Tsourou

   Healthy Urban Planning aims to refocus urban planners on the implications of their work for human health and well-being. If many of the problems faced in cities are to be resolved, improving health will be the fundamental goal of urban planners. Poor housing, poverty, stress, pollution, and lack of...

   Published November 22nd 2000 by Routledge
5. Sustainable Communities

   The Potential for Eco-Neighbourhoods

   By Hugh Barton

   'This book re-addresses the concepts of neighbourhood and community in a refreshing and challenging way. It will be of immense benefit, not only to town planners but also to al those professional and voluntary groups and politicians who seek to create the new communities of tomorrow' From the...

   Published September 30th 1999 by Routledge
6. A Guide to Local Environmental Auditing

   By Hugh Barton, Noel Bruder

   Sustainable development is still seen by authorities as an abstract concept. Local Environmental Auditing will help put it into practice. The book provides a comprehensive guide to monitoring the state of the local environment and establishing the impacts of local actions on global issues, and...

   Published May 31st 1995 by Routledge