Barton, H, 2017. City of Well-Being: A radical guide to planning, (London: Routledge).
Barton, H, Thompson, SM, Burgess S & Grant, M (Eds) 2015.
The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being: Shaping a sustainable and healthy future (London: Routledge).
Dannenberg, A.L, Frumkin, H. & Jackson, R.J. (Eds) 2011, Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being and Sustainability, Island Press, USA
Kent, J.L & Thompson, S. 2019, Planning Australia’s Healthy Built Environments (New York: Routledge).
The Challenge
Cancer Council NSW
Cancer Institute NSW
Skin Cancer Statistics Animation
UV Radiation and how it damages your skin
Prevention
Preventing skin cancer
Cancer Institute NSW information on the importance of built and natural shade in protecting against over-exposure to UV radiation and skin cancer
Protect your skin in 5 ways
Forty years of Slip! Slop! Slap! A call to action for skin cancer prevention
PHRP: Integrating shade prevention into the healthy built environment agenda: the approach taken in NSW, Australia
Healthy Built Environment
Healthy Built Environment Checklist
Australian Heart Foundation’s Healthy Active by Design: a practical set of resources and guide that offers evidence, advice and examples to assist with the development of healthy and active neighbourhoods
Government Architect NSW’s integrated design policy for the built environment of NSW
Cancer Council – Shade website (include co-benefits of shade info sheet)
Cancer Institute NSW – planning for shade: Cancer Institute NSW links to many resources regarding the importance of built and natural shade, and how to make policy, plan for and design better quality shade
Greener Spaces. Better Places: a movement that “brings together community, growers, government, business, and everyday people to make our homes, streets, and suburbs the greenest in the world”. Contains links to resources relating to urban canopy cover across Australia, and how to design greener spaces in the built environment.
Healthy Built Environments Program at City Futures Research Centre: UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
New Planner ‘Healthy Built Environments’ Column: the full collection of articles regarding ‘Healthy Built Environments’, authored by Prof Susan Thompson et al in the Planning Institute of Australia NSW’s journal ‘New Planner’ from 2010-2021.
The Lancet Commissions
A series of reports published by The Lancet on planetary health and human health 2015
The Lancet Planetary Health (open access journal) 2010-present
Cities & Health (some open access articles)