Cities & Health, Volume 7, Issue 6 (2023)

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The practice and delivery of health and equity for neighbourhoods and local environments

Leading Editorial

Editorial
The practices of urban health equity: a call for greater humility
Jason Corburn, Marcus Grant, Smruti Jukur & Francisco Obando
Pages: 903-906
Published online: 20 Oct 2023
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Research for City Practice

Research for city practice
Marcus Grant
Pages: 907-913
Published online: 20 Oct 2023
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Case Study

Case Report
Co-creating places for urban health & healing: the case of Pogo Park
Jason Corburn, Joseph Griffin, Brandon Harris & David Padilla
Pages: 914-925
Published online: 21 Jul 2023
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City Short

Brief Report
Fostering healthy and sustainable nursery school food systems: the case study of Madrid City
Irene Vidal, Marta Fajó-Pascual, Sara Gutiérrez, Esther López, Bárbara Vázquez, Silvia García, Abel Esteban, Paola Hernández, Julia Diez & Manuel Franco
Pages: 926-934
Published online: 20 Oct 2023
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Travelogues, Visual Essays and Design Sketches

Pictorial Work
Youth and community health volunteers in informal settlements demand safe spaces and inclusion
Sarah Ouma, Jane Wairutu & Jacob Omondi
Pages: 935-939
Published online: 20 Oct 2023
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Commentary and Debate

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Multisectoral approaches to addressing global urban maternal and perinatal health inequities
Opeyemi Babajide, Lenka Beňová, Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade Abejirinde, Eric A.P. Steegers, Peter Waiswa, Sandro Galea & Salma M Abdalla
Pages: 940-944
Published online: 03 Aug 2022
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Let’s talk about place: Considerations for future spatial stigma research
Shannon Whittaker, Emma Tran & Danya Keene
Pages: 945-949
Published online: 10 Aug 2020
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Equity concerns in transformative planning: Barcelona’s Superblocks under scrutiny
Isabelle Anguelovski, Jordi Honey-Rosés & Oriol Marquet
Pages: 950-958
Published online: 26 May 2023
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Delivering impact: why now is the time for philanthropy to lead on health equity in cities
Rowena Estwick
Pages: 959-962
Published online: 04 May 2021
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Book Review

Book Review
The caring city: ethics of urban design
by Juliet Davis. 2022. Published by Bristol University Press: Bristol, UK. 238 pp., £80 (Hardback), ISBN 9781529201215.
Ken Worpole
Page: 963
Published online: 26 Oct 2022
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Reflective Praxis - Think-piece

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“Creating communities that care”: reflections from community leaders on Livability Academy, a neighborhood quality-of-life training program in Philadelphia
Nishita Dsouza, Stasia Monteiro, Mateja Mihinjac, Sierra Cuellar, Roxanne Bell, Benjamin Moore, Sheila Moses, Wanda Johnson & Emilie Ziebarth
Pages: 964-972
Published online: 10 Jul 2023
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Systems thinking guides a community building journey in Malaysian public housing
Uta Dietrich, Aishwariya Krishna Kumar & Shahridan Faiez
Pages: 973-981
Published online: 20 Oct 2023
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Catalysing effective social accountability systems through community participation
Smruti Jukur, Neele Wiltgen Georgi, Rachel Tolhurst, Lana Whittaker, Kim Ozano & Vinod Kumar Rao
Pages: 982-990
Published online: 06 Sep 2023
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Promoting early childhood development through built environment transformations: lessons from the safe route project in Lima, Peru
Jose Cepero-Saravia, Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano & Ana Ortigoza
Pages: 991-1001
Published online: 07 Aug 2023
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Original Scholarship - Empirical

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Recommendations for developing urban interventions to promote physical activity: interviews with key informants in Europe
Prachi Bhatnagar, Stephen Whiting & Kremlin Wickramasinghe
Pages: 1002-1011
Published online: 15 Aug 2023
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Transit justice: community perceptions and anticipations of a new light rail transit line in Prince George’s County, Maryland, United States
Shuling Wu & Jennifer D. Roberts
Pages: 1012-1028
Published online: 11 Nov 2022
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Examining discrimination in home improvement financing (Home Mortgage Disclosure Act 2012–2016) and neighborhood health in the United States
Brigette A. Davis, Mariana C. Arcaya, David R. Williams, Molly Metzger & Nancy Krieger
Pages: 1029-1044
Published online: 20 Oct 2023
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Factors impacting the use of outdoor gyms, Israel as a case study
Orna Baron-Epel & Iris Ran
Pages: 1045-1054
Published online: 09 May 2023
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Original Scholarship – Empirical

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Towards climate change resilience and informal workers’ health in Zimbabwe: an action-research case study
Artwell Kadungure, Rangarirai Machemedze, Wisborn Malaya, Nathan Banda, Rene Loewenson & Alice Sverdlik
Pages: 1055-1071
Published online: 20 Oct 2023
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Original Scholarship - Empirical

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Women’s contested mobility and equity in Indian urban environment: case of public toilets in Pune, Maharashtra
Vasudha A. Gokhale, Deepa Joshi & Anjali Acharya
Pages: 1072-1087
Published online: 18 Aug 2023
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Original Scholarship - Methodological

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Improving children’s opportunities for play, physical activity, and social interaction through neighbourhood walkabout and photography in Bristol, UK
Tom Allport, Marcus Grant & Vanessa Er
Pages: 1088-1107
Published online: 10 Jul 2023
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Original Scholarship - Evidence Review

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Measuring walkability and bikeability for health equity and intervention research: a scoping review
Martine Shareck, Daniel Fuller, Stephanie Sersli, Carly Priebe, Ali Alfosool, Justin J. Lang & Emily Wolfe Phillips
Pages: 1108-1117
Published online: 20 Oct 2023
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Common measures of green and blue space for built environment, health equity and intervention research: a scoping review
Daniel Fuller, Martine Shareck, Stephanie Sersli, Carly Priebe, Ali Alfosool, Justin Lang & Emily Wolfe Phillips
Pages: 1118-1125
Published online: 20 Oct 2023
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