{"id":222,"date":"2018-10-14T22:49:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T22:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/?page_id=222"},"modified":"2025-05-21T11:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:20:48","slug":"neighborhoods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/healthy\/research\/neighborhoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Healthy Neighborhoods and Cities (2017-)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This body of work investigtates awide range of connections between health and places and the role of evidence-based practice in creating healthier places. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creating Healthy Neighborhoods<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. a book\u00a0by Ann Forsyth, Emily Salomon, and Laura Smead translates research about health and well-being into practical guidelines and considers how planners, designers, civic leaders, and activists can create places that reflect a broader concept of health or well-being. The team uses guidance based on research findings where those are available and fill the research gaps using frameworks about how health and place are related more generally and in relation to specific topics and types of places. In addition, the process of implementing new ideas is not unique to health but rather draws on a larger base of research evidence and professional experience. So in the end this can be read as a publication of ideas and guidelines for good planning and design, filtered through the lens of health. It was translated into Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EDRA\/Places Great Places Book Award (2018)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Publications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2025     Forthcoming, A. Forsyth. Literature Reviews, Evidence-Based Practice, and the Changing Landscape of Scholarly Publishing<\/a>. Journal of Planning Literature<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025     Forthcoming, A. Forsyth. Urban Design and Healthy Suburbs. In M. Larice, M. O\u2019Neill Robinson, and A. Penniman eds. The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice.<\/em> New York: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024     A. Forsyth and Y. Lyu. Making Communities Age-Friendly: Lessons from Implemented Programs. Journal of Planning Literature <\/em>39, 1: 3-24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024     Review Essay, L. Brown, Active Living and the Politics of Implementation: A Review Essay of Political Exercise: Active Living, Public Policy, and the Built Environment <\/em>(2022), Political Science Quarterly <\/em>139, 1: 107-115.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023     J. Molinsky and A. Forsyth. Climate Change, Aging, and Well-being: How Residential Setting Matters. Housing Policy Debate <\/em>33, 5: 1029-1054.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023     A. Forsyth. Creating Healthy Neighborhoods: Reflecting on Places, Processes, and Prospects. Landscape Architecture Journal (China) 30: 15-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022     Y. Lyu and A. Forsyth. Planning, Aging, and Loneliness: Reviewing Evidence about Built Environment Effects. Journal of Planning Literature <\/em>37, 1: 28-48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022      A. Forsyth. The Boldness of Healthy Cities. Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy<\/em> 5, 1: 22-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021     A. Forsyth and R. Peiser. Lessons from Planned Resettlement and New Town Experiences for Avoiding Climate Sprawl.<\/strong> Landscape and Urban Planning<\/em> 205: article 103957.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020     A. Forsyth. What is a Healthy Place? Models for Cities and Neighborhoods. Journal of Urban <\/em>Design<\/em> 25, 2: 186-202.<\/p>\n\n\n\n