This book is a collection of essays exploring different aspects of health and wellbeing in cities today. With contributions on Brazil, China, South Africa and the United Kingdom, the volume covers a range of fields including mental health, migration, mobility, sanitation, gendered violence and structural racism from a multidisciplinary perspective.
This book is a collection of essays exploring different aspects of health and wellbeing in cities today. With contributions on Brazil, China, South Africa and the United Kingdom, the volume covers a range of fields including mental health, migration, mobility, sanitation, gendered violence and structural racism from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Michael Keith is Professor at COMPAS, University of Oxford Andreza A. De Souza Santos is a Lecturer at the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford
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1 Introduction: Urban transformation and public health in future cities - Michael Keith and Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos 2 Mental health, stress and the contemporary metropolis - Nikolas Rose 3 Feminised urban futures, healthy cities and violence against women and girls (VAWG): Transnational reflections from Brazilians in London and Maré, Rio de Janeiro - Cathy McIlwaine, Miriam Krenzinger, Yara Evans and Eliana Sousa Silva 4 Understanding the relationships between wellbeing and mobility in the unequal city: The case of community initiatives promoting cycling and walking in São Paulo and London - Tim Schwanen and Denver V. Nixon 5 Urban (sanitation) transformation in China: A Toilet Revolution and its socio-eco-technical entanglements - Deljana Iossifova 6 The food environment and health in African cities: Analysing the linkages and exploring possibilities for improving health and wellbeing - Warren Smit 7 Urban mental health and the moral economies of suffering in a 'broken city': Reinventing depression among Rio de Janeiro urban dwellers - Leandro David Wenceslau and Francisco Ortega 8 Violence as a language of construction and deconstruction in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil - Luiz Eduardo Soares 9 Conclusion: City DNA, public health and a new urban imaginary - Michael Keith and Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos Index
1 Introduction: Urban transformation and public health in future cities - Michael Keith and Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos 2 Mental health, stress and the contemporary metropolis - Nikolas Rose 3 Feminised urban futures, healthy cities and violence against women and girls (VAWG): Transnational reflections from Brazilians in London and Maré, Rio de Janeiro - Cathy McIlwaine, Miriam Krenzinger, Yara Evans and Eliana Sousa Silva 4 Understanding the relationships between wellbeing and mobility in the unequal city: The case of community initiatives promoting cycling and walking in São Paulo and London - Tim Schwanen and Denver V. Nixon 5 Urban (sanitation) transformation in China: A Toilet Revolution and its socio-eco-technical entanglements - Deljana Iossifova 6 The food environment and health in African cities: Analysing the linkages and exploring possibilities for improving health and wellbeing - Warren Smit 7 Urban mental health and the moral economies of suffering in a 'broken city': Reinventing depression among Rio de Janeiro urban dwellers - Leandro David Wenceslau and Francisco Ortega 8 Violence as a language of construction and deconstruction in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil - Luiz Eduardo Soares 9 Conclusion: City DNA, public health and a new urban imaginary - Michael Keith and Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos Index
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