Towards Healthy Settlements

Dr. Tianyao Zhang is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT Shenzhen), and a Registered Urban Planner, China. She has involved in teaching several courses at HIT including Spatial planning, Urban design, and Rural planning for undergraduate students. As a urban researcher, she is broadly interested in the area of urban health and living environment. Her research focuses on identifying and understanding key pathways of urban environment affecting human health, providing necessary theoretical foundations for evidence-based urban planning and design. She has previously published more than 20 articles in both quality Chinese and English academic periodicals. Dr. Zhang completed her professional planning education at South China University of Technology (B.S.) and Tsinghua University (M.S.), and received her Ph.D at The University of Hong Kong. --Visit her at http://faculty.hitsz.edu.cn/zhangtianyao

• Chapter 1.  Health and suburbanization.- Chapter 2: Linking suburban neighborhoods and human health: A social ecological perspective.- Chapter 3: An empirical survey on the health performance of suburban residents in Guangzhou.- Chapter 4: Neighborhood factors associated with individual health: environmental and behavioral pathways.- Chapter 5: Health promotion opportunities and challenges: suburban housing development and people-environment transactions.- Chapter 6: Towards healthy suburban settlements.