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Sharon Friel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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toward a research and action agenda on Urban Planning design and health equity in cities in low and middle income countries
Journal of Urban Health-bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine, 2011Co-Authors: Warren Smit, Trevor Hancock, Jacob Kumaresen, Carlos Santosburgoa, Raul Sanchezkobashi Meneses, Sharon FrielAbstract:The importance of reestablishing the link between Urban Planning and public health has been recognized in recent decades; this paper focuses on the relationship between Urban Planning/design and health equity, especially in cities in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The physical Urban environment can be shaped through various Planning and design processes including Urban Planning, Urban design, landscape architecture, infrastructure design, architecture, and transport Planning. The resultant Urban environment has important impacts on the health of the people who live and work there. Urban Planning and design processes can also affect health equity through shaping the extent to which the physical Urban environments of different parts of cities facilitate the availability of adequate housing and basic infrastructure, equitable access to the other benefits of Urban life, a safe living environment, a healthy natural environment, food security and healthy nutrition, and an Urban environment conducive to outdoor physical activity. A new research and action agenda for the Urban environment and health equity in LMICs should consist of four main components. We need to better understand intra-Urban health inequities in LMICs; we need to better understand how changes in the built environment in LMICs affect health equity; we need to explore ways of successfully Planning, designing, and implementing improved health/health equity; and we need to develop evidence-based recommendations for healthy Urban Planning/design in LMICs.
Seonghwan Yoon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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development of an environment and energy geographical information system e gis construction model to support environmentally friendly Urban Planning
Applied Energy, 2013Co-Authors: Inae Yeo, Seonghwan Yoon, Jurngjae YeeAbstract:Abstract This study proposes a method to create an Urban Planning support model, applying the Environment and energy Geographical Information System Database (E-GIS DB) through the Urban life cycle to reduce energy use for environmentally friendly Urban Planning. The results deduced from this study are organized as follows. The proposed E-GIS construction model is composed of (a) an Urban GIS integration model, (b) an E-GIS DB model, and (c) a visualization model. The Urban GIS integration model has the ability to integrate Urban GIS constructs as well as to connect and visualize Urban Planning and the environment and energy DB in 3D space. The E-GIS DB model includes a function to visualize the 2D and 3D information, which is used in the environment and energy Planning of a city. To validate the proposed E-GIS construction model, a Korean city undergoing the Urban Planning process is selected as a case study. An E-GIS DB section with an 8 km × 12 km area for the research subject area was constructed in 2D and 3D GIS, and the Urban space, climate elements, and energy distribution characteristics are compared.
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development of an environment and energy geographical information system e gis construction model to support environmentally friendly Urban Planning
Applied Energy, 2013Co-Authors: Seonghwan YoonAbstract:This study proposes a method to create an Urban Planning support model, applying the Environment and energy Geographical Information System Database (E-GIS DB) through the Urban life cycle to reduce energy use for environmentally friendly Urban Planning. The results deduced from this study are organized as follows.
Yu Fat Lun - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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application of system dynamics model as decision making tool in Urban Planning process toward stabilizing carbon dioxide emissions from cities
Building and Environment, 2009Co-Authors: Weekean Fong, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Yu Fat LunAbstract:In spite of the fact that cities are the main sources of CO2 emissions, presently there are still no specific measures directly addressing the global warming issue in the Urban Planning process in Malaysia. The present study thus aims to shed new light in the Urban Planning sector in Malaysia by adopting System Dynamics Model as one of the decision making tools in the Urban Planning process, with specific considerations on the future CO2 emission trends. This paper presented projections of future CO2 emission trends based on the case of Iskandar Development Region of Malaysia, under various options of Urban policies, using the System Dynamics Model. The projections demonstrated the capability of the said model in serving as a decision making tool in the Urban Planning process, with specific reference to CO2 emissions from cities. Recommendations have been made on the possible approach of adopting the model in the process of Structure Plan study. If the current model was successfully adopted in the Urban Planning process in Malaysia, it will mark the first step for Malaysia in taking specific considerations on the issues of CO2 emissions and global warming in the Urban Planning process.
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energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission considerations in the Urban Planning process in malaysia
PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL, 2008Co-Authors: Weekean Fong, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Yu Fat LunAbstract:In handling global wanning issues, among the most important measures are to reduce energy consumptions and carbon dioxide emissions. While many countries have recognized the importance of the role of Urban Planning in energy conservation and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, spatial Planning framework in Malaysia is still lacking in this aspect. Although there are some spatial Planning policies indirectly favoring energy conservation, there is still no measure that directly emphasizes on promoting energy conservation and capping carbon dioxide emissions. Energy and carbon dioxide issues should thus be taken as one of the core parts in the Urban Planning process. It is necessary to develop and incorporate a decision making tool to assess the overall impact of development plans on energy consumptions and carbon dioxide emissions. While achieving the desired economic and social developments, it is necessary to create a low energy-consuming, carbon dioxide-emitting sustainable society.
Mary E Northridge - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Urban Planning and health equity
Journal of Urban Health-bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine, 2011Co-Authors: Mary E Northridge, Lance FreemanAbstract:Although the fields of Urban Planning and public health share a common origin in the efforts of reformers to tame the ravages of early industrialization in the 19th century, the 2 disciplines parted ways in the early 20th century as planners increasingly focused on the built environment while public health professionals narrowed in on biomedical causes of disease and disability. Among the unfortunate results of this divergence was a tendency to discount the public health implications of Planning decisions. Given increasingly complex Urban environments and grave health disparities in cities worldwide, Urban planners and public health professionals have once again become convinced of the need for inclusive approaches to improve population health and achieve health equity. To make substantive progress, intersectoral collaboration utilizing ecological and systems science perspectives will be crucial as the solutions lie well beyond the control of any single authority. Grounded in the social determinants of health, and with a renewed sense of interconnectedness, dedicated and talented people in government agencies and communities who recognize that our future depends on cultivating local change and evaluating the results can come to grips with the enormous challenge that lies ahead to create more equitable, sustainable, and healthier cities worldwide.
Jurngjae Yee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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development of an environment and energy geographical information system e gis construction model to support environmentally friendly Urban Planning
Applied Energy, 2013Co-Authors: Inae Yeo, Seonghwan Yoon, Jurngjae YeeAbstract:Abstract This study proposes a method to create an Urban Planning support model, applying the Environment and energy Geographical Information System Database (E-GIS DB) through the Urban life cycle to reduce energy use for environmentally friendly Urban Planning. The results deduced from this study are organized as follows. The proposed E-GIS construction model is composed of (a) an Urban GIS integration model, (b) an E-GIS DB model, and (c) a visualization model. The Urban GIS integration model has the ability to integrate Urban GIS constructs as well as to connect and visualize Urban Planning and the environment and energy DB in 3D space. The E-GIS DB model includes a function to visualize the 2D and 3D information, which is used in the environment and energy Planning of a city. To validate the proposed E-GIS construction model, a Korean city undergoing the Urban Planning process is selected as a case study. An E-GIS DB section with an 8 km × 12 km area for the research subject area was constructed in 2D and 3D GIS, and the Urban space, climate elements, and energy distribution characteristics are compared.
