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Public Health: Health in the City

A resource guide for students and faculty in the Urban Public Health program

E-books on Urban Health

Megacities and Global Health by Omar A. Khan; Gregory Pappas;
American Public Health Association Press, 2011.
Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities : Risk and Response by Rajib Shaw; Anshu Sharma
Emerald Group Publishing, 2011.
The Agile City : Building Well-Being and Wealth in an ERA of Climate Change by James S. Russell
Island Press, 2011.
The Built Environment and Public Health by Russell P. Lopez
Jossey-Bass, 2012.

Resource Box: Health in the City

US Interagency Council on Homelessness
A joint program of an number of Federal agencies. The site includes links to several specific programs, as well as to "Opening Doors," the strategic plan.

Social Capital and Urban Crime by Danielle Lively Neal
LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2011.
Inner-city Health Care by Trenton Honda and Theresa Horvath
Chapter 45 of Ruth Ballweg; Darwin Brown; Daniel Vetrosky; Tami S. Ritsema, Physician Assistant: a Guide to Clinical Practice, 6th ed., Saunders/Elsevier, 2018.

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E-books on Cities

World Cities and Climate Change : Producing Urban Ecological Security by Mike Hodson; Simon Marvin
Open University Press, 2010.
McGraw-Hill Education
Public Produce : The New Urban Agriculture by Darrin Nordahl
Island Press, 2009.
This Could Be the Start of Something Big : How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America by Manuel Pastor; Chris Benner; Martha Matsuoka
Cornell University Press, 2010
Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor : Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World by Judy L. Baker
World Bank, 2012.