July 1, 2022
Building Healthy Cities In The Global South: A Case Study Of The City Of Islamabad, Pakistan
Humans interact with their surrounding environment, public health and the built environment are directly correlated and this association has existed for centuries. With growing interest in concepts of healthy urban planning, governments, international organizations and public health practitioners have developed many recommendations/policies to improve public health through policy agendas. Current planning in the global south is focused on physical planning which was found to be the case in the selected case study of Islamabad too. It is important that the planning focus be shifted towards the acceptance of explicit relationship of health and built environment. This thesis, therefore, advocates that
