Influencing Urban Planning Policy: An Exploration from the Perspective of Public Health

Human health requires the proper development and management of places through urban planning. This paper demonstrates how concerns for human health can become explicit matters for consideration in urban planning policy systems. Taking advantage of a rare opportunity to examine the policy development...

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Published in:Urban policy and research 2018-01, Vol.36 (1), p.20-34
Main Authors: Kent, Jennifer L., Harris, Patrick, Sainsbury, Peter, Baum, Fran, McCue, Peter, Thompson, Susan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Development policy
Governance
Health care policy
Policy making
Positioning
Public health
Urban planning
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Summary:Human health requires the proper development and management of places through urban planning. This paper demonstrates how concerns for human health can become explicit matters for consideration in urban planning policy systems. Taking advantage of a rare opportunity to examine the policy development process, we combine a realist analysis, with a new institutional policy approach, to study a case of planning system review in Australia. These insights are useful for practitioners presented with similar opportunities for legislative influence. We also demonstrate the way this approach can be used in future research to develop rich insights into the forces at play in positioning health as explicitly related to urban governance.
ISSN:0811-1146
1476-7244
DOI:10.1080/08111146.2017.1299704