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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Graham Haughton -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Lessons from History: Special Places to Everyday Spaces -- Early beginnings -- Water and healing -- Water and harm -- The origins of public health -- Visionaries and paternalists -- Ebenezer Howard and garden cities -- Patrick Geddes -- Health and modernism -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2: Definitions and Measures -- Introduction -- Trends in health -- Defining health and well-being -- Health, well-being and the life-course -- Health inequalities and deprivation -- From inequalities to the Settlement Health Map -- WHO Healthy Cities Network -- The challenges of interdisciplinary working -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Active Lives, Active Travel -- Introduction -- The journey to car domination -- The health impacts of motor vehicles -- Health inequalities and traffic -- Technological 'fixes' for transport health challenges -- Active travel -- Urban form and active travel -- Increasing active travel through intervention -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4: The Need for Healthy Homes and High Streets -- Introduction -- Housing issues -- New homes: a continuing problem -- Healthy, socially and economically diverse neighbourhoods -- Healthy homes for the future -- High streets: a changing shopping offer -- Toxic high streets -- Approaching healthy high streets -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Green Infrastructure for Health and Well-being -- Introduction -- Human needs: from 'prospect-refuge' to 'affordances' -- Restoring, facilitating and mitigating -- Urban allotments and community gardens -- Biodiversity and rewilding -- Nature Based Solutions (NBS) -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6: The Benefits and Burdens of the Past: Heritage, Place and Well-being -- Introduction -- Valuing the past around us -- Reframing the 'benefits' of the past debate.

"The obesogenic environment describes the sum of influences that our surroundings, opportunities or conditions of life have on promoting obesity in individuals or populations. In a world where obesity has now reached epidemic proportions, a thorough understanding of the underlying causes of the problem is essential if public health initiatives and government policies are to successfully address the issue. Beginning with an overarching introduction to obesity and its implications for health and wellbeing, the book will move on to consider such crucial areas as eating behaviours and food environments, physical activity and food access. This groundbreaking book brings together for the first time the knowledge of dietitians, epidemiologists and town planners in order to offer a multidisciplinary approach to public health, suggesting new and exciting ways to shape our environment to better support healthful decisions"--Provided by publisher.