Book
“Through the lenses of equity, inclusion and sustainability, Pineo’s ‘healthy urbanism,’ productively builds on existing theory and practice to consider and describe the processes, principles and goals that can support health through urban planning and development.”
—Professor Julian Agyeman, Tufts University, USA
Structured around the THRIVES framework, the Healthy Urbanism book offers a balance of theory and practice, illustrated with case studies. Each of the scales of health impact in THRIVES is examined through a chapter, first using evidence to demonstrate that the status quo of urban design and planning is insufficient to support health and then proposing frameworks and design solutions to overcome this challenge.
The book is a resource for existing professionals and students in built environment and public health professionals. Readers will find sections covering key topics in healthy urbanism, including:
- An overview of health and wellbeing models with key definitions, global trends in urban health and drivers of urbanisation
- Discussion of the shifting priorities for healthy places from ancient cities, social reform, high-rise housing and new urbanism through to 15-minute cities
- Models for conceptualising the built environment’s impact on health and the need for THRIVES
- Deep dives into each scale of health impact in THRIVES, including planetary health, ecosystem health and local health, with in-depth policy and design case studies
- Ways of practising healthy urbanism, covering policy-making, community knowledge, funding healthy places, models of healthy development and monitoring
- Priorities for the future of health urbanism, including disaster prevention and recovery, incremental to transformative urban change, smart cities and framing healthy urbanism.
Endorsements from Professor Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Professor Sir Andrew Haines and Sharon Z. Roerty are available on the publisher’s website: Pineo, H., 2022. Healthy Urbanism: Designing and Planning Equitable, Sustainable and Inclusive Places. Palgrave Macmillan. Singapore.
Highlighted
Pineo H, Álvarez Rivadulla MJ, Borde E et al. Mobilizing knowledge about urban change for equity and sustainability: developing ‘Change Stories’, a multi-country transdisciplinary study [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Wellcome Open Research. 2024, 9:218.
Pineo, H., Turnbull, E.R., Davies, M., Rowson, M., Hayward, A.C., Hart, G., …Aldridge, R.W. (2021). A new transdisciplinary research model to investigate and improve the health of the public. Health Promotion International.
Pineo, H., Zimmermann, N., Davies, M. (2020). Integrating health into the complex urban planning policy and decision-making context: a systems thinking analysis. Palgrave Communications, 6 (1).
Journal articles
Pineo, H., Clifford, B., Eyre, M., Aldridge, R. (2024). Health and wellbeing impacts of housing converted from non-residential buildings: a mixed-methods exploratory study in London, UK. Wellbeing, Space and Society. 6, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2024.100192.
Nix, E., Ibbetson, A., Zhou, K., Davies, M., Wilkinson, P., Ludolph., R., Pineo, H. (2024). Getting to effective housing policy for health: a thematic synthesis of policy development and implementation. Cities & Health. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2024.2328951.
Zhou, K., Zimmermann, N., Warwick, E., Pineo, H., Ucci, M., Davies, M. (2022). Dynamics of short-term and long-term decision-making in English housing associations: A study of using systems thinking to inform policy design. EURO Journal on Decision Processes, 10:100017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejdp.2022.100017.
Bai, Y., Zhang, Y., Zotova, O., Pineo, H., Siri, J., Liang, L., …Gong, P., (2022). Healthy cities initiative in China: Progress, challenges, and the way forward. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, 27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100539
Davies, M., Belesova, K., Crane, M., Hale, J., Haines, A., Hutchinson, E., …Pineo, H., …Wilkinson, P. (2021) The CUSSH programme: supporting cities’ transformational change towards health and sustainability [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Research, 6:100 https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16678.2
Goodess, C., Berk, S., Ratna, S.B., Brousse, O., Davies, M., Heaviside, C., Moore, G., Pineo, H. (2021). Climate change projections for sustainable and healthy cities. Buildings and Cities, 2, 812–836.
Aldridge RW., Pineo H., Fragaszy E. et al. (2021). Household overcrowding and risk of SARS-CoV-2: analysis of the Virus Watch prospective community cohort study in England and Wales [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]. Wellcome Open Research, 6:347. doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17308.1.
Moore, G., Michie, S., Anderson, J., Belesova, K., Crane, M., Deloly, C., …Pineo, H., … Osrin, D. (2021). Developing a programme theory for a transdisciplinary research collaboration: Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Research. doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16542.2
Pineo, H., Zhou, K., Niu, Y., Hale, J., Willan, C., Crane, M., Zimmermann, N., Michie, S., Liu, Q., Davies, M. (2021). Evidence-informed urban health and sustainability governance in two Chinese cities. Buildings and Cities, 2, 550–567.
Pineo, H., Moore, G. (2021). Built environment stakeholders’ experiences of implementing healthy urban development: an exploratory study. Cities & Health, 6 (5), 922-936.
Callway, R., Pineo, H., Moore, G. (2020). Understanding the Role of Standards in the Negotiation of a Healthy Built Environment. Sustainability, 12 (23), 9884.
Hess, J.J., Ranadive, N., Boyer, C., Aleksandrowicz, L., Anenberg, S.C., Aunan, K., …Pineo H., …Bowen, K. (2020). Guidelines for Modeling and Reporting Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Actions. Environmental Health Perspectives, 128 (11), 115001.
Pineo, H. (2020). Towards Healthy Urbanism: Inclusive, Equitable and Sustainable (THRIVES) – An urban design and planning framework from theory to praxis. Cities & Health, 6 (5), 974-992.
Pineo, H., Moore, G., Braithwaite, I. (2020). Incorporating practitioner knowledge to test and improve a new conceptual framework for healthy urban design and planning. Cities & Health. 6 (5), 906-921.
McKinnon, G., Pineo, H., Chang, M., Taylor-Green, L., Johns, A., Toms, R. (2020). Strengthening the links between planning and health in England. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 369. doi:10.1136/bmj.m795
Pineo, H., Glonti, K., Rutter, H., Zimmermann, N., Wilkinson, P., Davies, M. (2019). Use of Urban Health Indicator Tools by Built Environment Policy- and Decision-Makers: a Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis. Journal of Urban Health, 97, 418–435.
Pineo, H., Glonti, K., Rutter, H., Zimmermann, N., Wilkinson, P., Davies, M. (2018). Urban Health Indicator Tools of the Physical Environment: a Systematic Review. Journal of Urban Health, 95, 613–646.
Pineo, H., Zimmermann, N., Cosgrave, E., Aldridge, R.W., Acuto, M., Rutter, H. (2018). Promoting a healthy cities agenda through indicators: development of a global urban environment and health index. Cities & Health, (2)1, 27-45.
Pineo, H., Glonti, K., Rutter, H., Zimmermann, N., Wilkinson, P., Davies, M. (2017). Characteristics and use of urban health indicator tools by municipal built environment policy and decision-makers: A systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 6 (1), doi:10.1186/s13643-017-0406-x
Book chapters
Moore, G., Pluchinotta, I., Pineo, H., Osrin, D., Zimmermann, N., Salvia, G., Davies, M. (2023). Formative developmental evaluation: a transdisciplinary urban regeneration project in London, UK. In Lawrence, R., (Ed.). Handbook of Transdisciplinarity: Global Perspectives. Edward Elgar Publishing, Northampton.
Pineo, H., Thrift, J., Chang, M. (2021). Planning for Health and Wellbeing. In Parker, G., Street, E. (Eds.), Contemporary Planning Practice: Skills, Specialisms and Knowledges. Macmillan.
Mavrogianni, A., Taylor, J., Symonds, P., Oikonomou, E., Pineo, H., Zimmermann, N., Davies, M., (2021). Cool Cities by Design: Shaping a Healthy and Equitable London in a Warming Climate, in: Ren, C., McGregor, G. (Eds.), Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities, Biometeorology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 71–98. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87598-5_4.
Pineo, H., Zimmermann, N., Davies, M. (2019). Urban planning: leveraging the urban planning system to shape healthy cities. In Galea, S., Vlahov, D. (Eds.), Urban Health. Oxford University Academic Press. pp. 198-206.
Pineo, H. (2018). Límites de Influencia en la Partícipacíon Comunitaria (Boundaries of influence in community participation). In Rodríguez-Álvarez, J. (Ed.), BREEAM Urbanismo: La Evaluación de la Sostenibilidad en la Planificación de las Ciudades (BREEAM Urbanism: Sustainability Assessment in City Planning). (pp. 4-19). Galicia, Spain: Instituto Tecnológico de Galicia (ITG, Galicia Insitutute of Technology).
Invited articles and reports
Contributing author: (2021). Turning the Tide: A 10-year Healthy Weight Strategy. Members of the Obesity Health Alliance, London, UK. Available at: http://obesityhealthalliance.org.uk/turningthetide/
Contributing author: Academy of Medical Sciences, Royal Society. (2021). A healthy future – tackling climate change mitigation and human health together. Academy of Medical Sciences, London, UK. Available at: https://acmedsci.ac.uk/policy/policy-projects/climate-change-and-health
Contributing author: WHO, (2021). Policies, regulations and legislation promoting healthy housing: a review. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Available at: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240011298
Nix, E., Pineo, H., Ibbetson, A., Zhou, K., Wilkinson, P., Ludolph, R., Davies, M. (2021). Policies promoting healthy housing: a review. Background document for the WHO Expert consultation on the implementation of the WHO Housing and health guidelines. Geneva: World Health Organization.
Pineo, H., Audia, C., Black, D., French, M., Gemmell, E., Lovasi, G.S., …Pérez-Ferrer, C. (2020). Building a Methodological Foundation for Impactful Urban Planetary Health Science. Journal of Urban Health. doi:10.1007/s11524-020-00463-5
Pineo, H. (2019). Increasing physical activity and equity in urban regeneration. The Lancet Public Health, 4, e367–e368.
Pineo, H., Rydin, Y. (2018). Cities, health and well-being. London, UK: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Pineo, H. (2017). Healthy Planning and Regeneration: innovations in community engagement, policy and monitoring. Watford, UK: Building Research Establishment (BRE).
Laurens, T., Nakanishi, I., Grover, P., Paul, T., Cooper, K., Pineo, H., …Collis, L. (2016). Health + Mobility: A Design Protocol for Mobilising Healthy Living. London, UK: Arup.
Pineo, H. (2016). The Value of Healthy Places – for Developers, Occupants and Society. Town and Country Planning, 85 (11), 477-480.
Taylor, T., Pineo, H. (2015). Health and wellbeing in BREEAM. Watford, UK: BRE Global Ltd.
Pineo, H. (2015). Housing for inclusive communities – an experimental model in Gothenburg. Town and Country Planning, 84 (12), 566-571.
Pineo, H. (2015). UK Leading Capabilities on Sustainable Urbanisation: Final report to UK Trade & Investment. Watford, UK: Building Research Establishment (BRE).
Pineo, H. (2012). Health and the built environment. The Lancet 380, 1146–1147.
Pineo, H., Shaw, R. (2011). Sustainable energy in the new planning world. Town and Country Planning, 80 (9), 381-384.
Pineo, H. (2011). How planning works: an introductory guide for councillors. London: Planning Advisory Service, Local Government Association.
Pineo, H. (2011). Sustainable energy options: how do you choose the right solutions for your area?. London: Local Government Improvement and Development.
Pineo, H. (2010). Using supplementary planning documents to address climate change locally. London: Planning Advisory Service.
Pineo, H. (2009). Knitting together: planning and our ageing population. London: Planning Advisory Service.