Hong Kong: Cities, Health and Well-being

This conference newspaper features major new research on metropolitan health and well-being, as well as intra-urban analysis of health and social indicators in Hong Kong, and qualitative research with residents of four dense neighbourhoods, together with conference partners at the University of Hong Kong. A compilation of thirty city case studies and framing papers by conference participants and collaborators focusses on the global themes of health and well-being in cities, and local examples of interventions and policy analysis from Hong Kong and fourteen cities around the world.

Table of Contents

Introduction

WELL-BEING IN THE URBAN AGE

Ricky Burdett, Wolfgang Nowak  

CAN CITIES BE GOOD FOR YOU?

Ricky Burdett, Myfanwy Taylor 

 

Global Metropolitan Focus

DYNAMICS OF URBANISATION

Antoine Paccoud 

MEASURING METROPOLITAN WELL-BEING

Antoine Paccoud 

COMPARING PERFORMANCE IN HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WEALTH

Antoine Paccoud 

MEASURING THE HUMAN URBAN FOOTPRINT

Antoine Paccoud 

URBAN AGE CITIES COMPARED

LSE Cities 

 

De-coding Hong-Kong

DISCONNECTION IN A HIGHLY CONNECTED CITY

Paul S. F. Yip 

CONSERVING HONG KONG

Lynne DiStefano, Ho Yin Lee 

THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF HIGH-DENSITY URBAN LIVING

Mike Kilburn, Christine K. W. Loh 

MAKING A HAPPIER HONG KONG

Lok Sang Ho 

HIGH-DENSITY LIVING IN HONG KONG

Anthony G. O. Yeh 

HEALTH IN HONG KONG: AN INTERNATIONAL URBAN PERSPECTIVE

Victor G. Rodwin 

HONG KONG'S SPATIAL DNA

Jens Kandt 

MAPPING SOCIAL DETERMINANTS

Jens Kandt 

MAPPING HEALTH OUTCOMES

Jens Kandt 

HIGH DENSITY FROM THE GROUND

Joshua Bolchover 

LIVING AT DENSITY: VOICES OF HONG KONG RESIDENTS

Sophia G. Chak, Cristina Inclan-Valadez, Phil Leung, Myfanwy Taylor, Paul S. F. Yip

 

Framing papers

THE DETERMINANTS OF URBAN HEALTHY EQUITY

Sharon Friel 

MOVIN’ ON UP: HAPPINESS AND URBAN ECONOMICS

Paul Dolan, Robert Metcalfe 

WHY COMPLEXITY IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF CITY LIFE

Richard Sennett 

URBAN STRESS AND MENTAL HEALTH

Mazda Adli 

HEALTHY PEOPLE IN MODERN CITIES

Detlev Ganten 

THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING

Elizabeth Burton 

HEALTH AND THE URBAN POOR

Ernestina Coast 

UPGRADING DENSE INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS

David Satterthwaite 

 

Learning from

HONG KONG'S HOUSING SHAME

Society for Community Organization 

THE CHALLENGES OF BEING OPEN

Kee Seng Chia, C. K. Heng, K. C. Ho 

BUILDING HEALTHY CITIES

Bingqin Li 

HIGH URBAN DENSITY AND THE GOAL OF A HEALTHY CITY

Tianqi Huang, Ling Huang, Jianfeng Xu 

URBANISATION AND DISEASE PATTERNS IN SHANGHAI

Youde Gou 

SPATIAL ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES IN SHANGHAI

Yuan Ren 

URBAN RISK AND WELL-BEING IN TOKYO

Takayuki Kubo 

RETHINKING AFRICAN URBANISM FROM THE SLUM

Edgar Pieterse 

THE AFRICAN CENTRE FOR CITIES’ HEALTHY CITIES CITYLAB

Warren Smit, Vanessa Watson 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN MAPUTO

Jørgen Eskemose Andersen, Paul Jenkins 

DESIGNING DENSITY IN KARACHI

Arif Hasan 

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

Hans Dohman 

NEIGHBOURHOOD-BASED APPROACHES TO POVERTY CONCENTRATION IN VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA

Nathan Edelson 

EASTENDERS

Stephen O'Brien

 

Publication date
November 2011
 
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