Urban Health: Readings in the Social, Built, and Physical Environments of U.S. Cities

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Author(s):	H. Patricia Hynes, MS, MA, Boston University School of Public Health Russell Lopez, ScD, Boston University School of Public Health
Details:	ISBN-13: 9780763752453 ISBN-10:0763752452 Paperback 302 pages © 2009
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New responses to the urban environment have arisen in the late 20th and early 21st centuries; responses that provide grounded and cohesive insights and plans of action to confront social inequality, health disparity, and environmental injustice in U.S. cities.

Urban Health is a collection 13 articles that document action from these incisive and dimensioned responses. The authors introduce each set of articles with their own insightful analysis. These critical writings on the social, built, and physical environment offer a paradigm of environment protection that is rooted in civil rights for social and racial equality that considers the environment as the place where people live, work, play, and pray.

Features:

Articles are written by a diverse group of respected scholars and practitioners.
Each section (the social environment; the built environment; the physical environment) is introduced by the authors to give the text a cohesive, unifying framework.
Supplementary teaching materials include class projects to give instructors the flexibility of using a project-based course format.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Section 1: The Social Environment
Introduction
Article 1. The Age Of Extremes: Concentrated Affluence And Poverty In The Twenty-First Century, Douglas S. Massey
Article 2: Health Inequities in the United States: Prospects and Solutions, Dennis Raphael
Article 3: To Mitigate, Resist, or Undo: Addressing Structural Influences on the Health of Urban Populations, Arline T Geronimus, ScD
Article 4: Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy, Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, Felton Earls

Section 2: The Built Environment
Introduction
Article 5: Housing And Health: Time Again For Public Health Action , James Krieger, MD, MPH, Donna L. Higgins, PHD
Article 6: Indoor Environments and Health: Moving Into The 21st Century, Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS, John D. Spengler, PHD
Article 7: Urban Sprawl And Public Health, Howard Frumkin
Article 8: Obesity, Physical Activity, And The Urban Environment: Public Health Research Needs, Russell P. Lopez, H. Patricia Hynes

Section 3: The Physical Environment
Introduction
Article 9: Health, Wealth, and Air Pollution: Advancing Theory and Methods, Marie S. O'Neill, Michael Jerrett, Ichiro Kawachi, Jonathan I. Levy, Aaron J. Cohen, Nelson Gouveia, Paul Wilkinson, Tony Fletcher, Luis Cifuentes, Joel Schwartz
Article 10: Examining Urban Brownfields through the Public Health, Jill S. Litt, Nga L. Tran, Thomas A. Burke
Article 11: A Current Appraisal of Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States – 2007, Robin Saha
Article 12: Urban Horticulture in the Contemporary United States: Personal and Community Benefits, H. Patricia Hynes, Genevieve Howe
Article 13: Cities: The Vital Core, Joel Rogers

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H. Patricia Hynes, MS, MA-Boston University School of Public Health

Pat Hynes is an environmental engineer turned Professor of Environmental Health who works on issues of the urban environment (including lead poisoning, asthma and the indoor environment, safe housing, and urban agriculture); environmental justice; and feminism.

For her writing, teaching, and applied research, she has won numerous awards, including the 2003 National Delta Omega Award for Innovative Curriculum in Public Health for her course, taught with Russ Lopez, Urban Environmental Health; the US EPA Environmental Merit Award for the Lead-Safe Yard Project (2000) and the Healthy Public Housing Initiative (2004); and the 1996 National Arbor Day Foundation Book Award for her book, A Patch of Eden: America¹s Inner-City Gardeners.

Professor Hynes was Co-Principal Investigator of the Healthy Public Housing Initiative, an asthma and integrated pest management intervention project in Boston public housing and co-director of the Lead-Safe Yard Project. She is currently working on a soil contamination study in Boston's urban gardens and co-directing a regional training center, the Center for Healthy Homes and Neighborhoods.

Russell Lopez, ScD-Boston University School of Public Health

Russ Lopez, a native of California, received his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Earth Sciences from Stanford University and his Master of City and Regional Planning degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has a doctorate in Environmental Health from the Boston University School of Public Health. Past employment includes working on urban and environmental issues for then Lt. Governor John Kerry.

He also worked for ten years in various positions in for the City of Boston on housing, community development and environmental concerns. Dr. Lopez was the first Executive Director of the Environmental Diversity Forum, a coalition of environmentalists and community activists advocating for environmental justice issues throughout New England.

His interests include urban environmental health and the role of the cities, neighborhoods, and the structure of the built environment in public health outcomes. Dr. Lopez has published articles on the health effects of racial segregation, income inequality and urban sprawl. He is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health.

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"An excellent juxtaposition of environment, health care, and policy."
—Sandra Price, JD, Department of Public Affairs, University of Missouri, Kansas City