Urbanism and Public Health
As the twenty first century dawns, we face many of the same problems with our postindustrial cities that we encountered with our (then) newly emerging industrial cities in 1900. By 2050 there will be approximately 10 billion people on the planet. About three-quarters of them will be living in urban areas. A large proportion will be in megacities (cities with over 10 million people) and most will be extremely poor. The purpose of the University Seminar on Urbanism and Public Health is to examine and plan responses to the challenges that this new wave of urbanization will bring to the planet. Though the exact configuration of pathogens and social problems are different in 2000 than they were in 1900, in many ways the fundamental challenge is the same. We need clean cities, safe drinking water, clean air, good housing in good neighborhoods, ample open space, and safe, environmentally friendly, and efficient transportation. If we are going to succeed in humanizing the global economy we will once again have to solve the linked problems of land use and population health. A goal of the seminar is to ensure that scholars and technical experts are grounded in an interdisciplinary understanding of the public health and urban planning challenges of the new century. This seminar is intended to be a focal point for collaborative scholarly output as it provides a vehicle for interdisciplinary work. The participants in this seminar are among the intellectual leaders of this newly emerging field.
Seminar: #687
Founded: 2001
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Seminar Administration
Co Chairs:
Mary Northridge
Deputy Director, Harlem Health Promotion Center and Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
212.305.0715
men11@columbia.edu
Elliott Sclar
Professor
Columbia University, School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
212.854.3700
eds2@columbia.edu
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