Town planning is deeply implicated in both the planetary crisis of climate change and the personal crises of unhealthy lifestyle, both as cause and potential remedy. While the core concept of seeing settlements as providing the human habitat is widely accepted, all too often there is a failure to carry it through systematically. The original root of town planning was concern for human health and quality of life, andCity of Well-Being demonstrates how planners can recapture that initial agenda using the tools and techniques of today.
This book is about town and urban planning as a generic skill - not about the legal systems and procedures which are distinct in each country, but the insights and skills which apply irrespective of the institutional context.City of Well-being links the activity of planning with the underpinning values of health, well-being and sustainable development. It offers a systematic account available of how to plan towns and cities that offer humane, inclusive, liveable and ecologically sustainable environment.
Hugh Barton challenges the prevailing view that mediation and co-ordination are enough. He links the scientific evidence in relation to human well-being and the built environment to strategies for analysis, policies and plans.City of Well-Being deals with the interplay of different scales and contexts of planning – city regions, rural towns, neighbourhoods and individual development projects. It draws extensively on best practice and recent research, dealing with realities not wishful thinking, providing tools and a holistic philosophy for the professional planner, and always maintaining a focus on core technical skills: spatial analysis, policy and design at varied scales, collaborative decision-processes involving all sectors, and systematic evidence-based appraisal.
City of Well-Being sets out an agenda for twenty-first century planning that combines the principles that have always been at the heart of urban planning with the most recent of best practice. The result is a blueprint for how modern planning should be.
Hugh Barton trained as a planner at Oxford Polytechnic. He worked for the Greater London Council and Lancashire County Council before turning to academia at Bristol Polytechnic/ the University of the West of England (UWE). He has taught at all levels, and most planning-related subjects; been involved in diverse research and consultancy projects. In the interstices of the week he campaigned for free public transport. In the 1980s he co-founded the Urban Centre for Appropriate Technology, now the Centre for Sustainable Energy. In the late 1990s he became Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for healthy urban environments, based at UWE, and worked with the European Healthy Cities network to promote a healthy planning. Since retiring in 2012 Hugh has continued his involvement in the field, locally and nationally, while trying to create more space for walking, music and a growing number of grand-children.
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