Wellbeing and urban planning
| dc.contributor.author | Shekhar, Himanshu | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-23T11:37:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-23T11:37:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In the globalized world neo-liberal urbanisation is widely implored and cities are exploring harmonizing ways to enhance the wellbeing of their citizens. Various think tanks and civil societies have been long advocating for a shift in the economic framework from growth to wellbeing (Donella H Meadows, 1973). In the view of economic crisis, the shift to wellbeing from growth looks very likely (Padoan, 2013).Health and Wellbeing is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals declared by the UN. With this perspective, this paper aims at understanding what does wellbeing mean in the context of urban planning, historically and in the 21st century. John Snow’s mapping of London in 1854 is one the landmark moments of modern urban planning which was followed by the works of Patrick Geddes (Schwab, 1992) (Hall, 2014). Both these works focused on improving the overall quality of life in human settlements. This momentum was later changed into the modernist planning of Le Corbusier (and others) that drove the urbanization around the western world for much of the first half of 20th Century (Harvey, 1990). The classic ideological tug of war surrounding the urban planning of New York between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses marks the landmark moment of the arrival of postmodernist planning, which was further advanced by David Harvey (Harvey, 1990). | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 774-776 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2497 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All Rights Reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | Wellbeing and urban planning | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion |