Townshend Tim, Lake Amelia A
Global Urban Research Unit, School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle NE1 7RU, UK.
Health Place. 2009 Dec;15(4):909-16. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.12.002. Epub 2008 Dec 25.
There is a growing body of research, which suggests that many contemporary urban environments do not support healthy lifestyle choices and are implicated in the obesity pandemic. This paper reviews the evidence from this field in relation to theory, policy and practice, from three different disciplinary perspectives: urban design, geography and public health nutrition. In the UK, our development has been higher density and our urban form more varied, yet the paper concludes that it still may be making a contribution to our own obesity crisis. The dynamics of this, however, are highly complex and currently little understood.
越来越多的研究表明，许多当代城市环境不利于健康的生活方式选择，并且与肥胖症大流行有关。本文从城市设计、地理和公共卫生营养这三个不同的学科视角，回顾了该领域在理论、政策和实践方面的证据。在英国，我们的发展密度更高，城市形态更加多样，但本文得出的结论是，它仍可能对我们自己的肥胖危机有所影响。然而，其中的动态过程非常复杂，目前人们对此了解甚少。
