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By Donggen Wang, Shenjing He

ISBN-10: 3662481839

ISBN-13: 9783662481837

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ISBN-13: 9783662481844

This booklet investigates severe city matters regarding socio-spatial segregation, housing, day-by-day shuttle, mobility of the aged, and so forth. from the viewpoint of health. this can be a choice of the newest examine works by means of frontline researchers operating within the fields of geography, city reports, shipping, and sociology. Drawing on theoretical and empirical explorations, amassed chapters during this publication attach mobility and health, bridge geography and healthiness, and examine the consequences of mobility hazards on city marginal teams’ health. study findings offered within the ebook also are hugely appropriate for practitioners and coverage makers within the pursuit of bettering city livability because well being, or caliber of existence, is more and more regarded as a big standards substitute to source of revenue development to judge monetary, social and concrete improvement.

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