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Bringing Public Health into Urban Revitalization - Workshop in Brief
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. The workshop was divided into the following areas, which included presentations from invited speakers followed by discussion among the speakers and individual audience members: • Overview • Using green technologies in Washington, DC • Rebuilding efforts in Detroit • Transforming New York City • Crosscutting issues that face all urban environments • Closing remarks This brief summary of the workshop highlights the dialogue that emerged from the individual speakers' presentations and discussion sessions that followed, and it should not be seen as conclusions or recommendations from the workshop.
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When you add in the health and productivity benefits, the benefit–cost ratio for building green is substantially higher than when considering energy and water benefits alone.2 In the economic downturn there was a question of whether green buildings would thrive or be phased out, but the growth of green buildings has been very dramatic and in less than a decade has gone from an outlier to the design standard. In Washington, DC, work is being done to understand the costs and benefits for green roofs and cool roofs.5 Kats explained that the benefits of cool roofs are direct (from reflecting and efficiently emitting heat from sunlight)
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The project also focuses on a comprehensive citywide water infrastructure system to prevent sewer overflow discharges into the Detroit River and an open space network to create parks, carbon forests, and innovative ecological land assets. Kinkead noted that the implementation plan is bound in partnerships that provide catalytic action for activating the Detroit Future City Strategic Framework.
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The role of local health departments is critical in this type of approach since they are well positioned to recommend specific interventions. Davis next talked about Michigan Power to Thrive, an alignment of two powerful disciplines -- community organizing and public health -- in a mutual effort to create health equity and social justice in Michigan.
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Green Building Council and Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, noted that with this session it is important to focus on scaling up and creating infrastructure for innovation. He noted that the Active Design Guidelines,13 which bring together perspectives from designers and public health practitioners, are quite important for new opportunities because they are actionable and provide real tools for market.
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His recent article in Health Affairs outlines the need for actionable, community-relevant, practical, and valuable metrics to evaluate the performance of real estate projects from a population health perspective and allow a developer to employ the metrics on an appropriate scale.14 Nicolas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Social/Personality Psychology at Hunter College of the City University of New York, joined the workshop by phone and discussed his work in community development with a particular focus on health equity. First, he asked how public health professionals can ensure that community development initiatives designed to improve health can contribute to shrinking, rather than widening, inequalities in health.
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CLOSING REMARKS Frank Loy closed the workshop with a few comments. He stated that the workshop discussions emphasized health as more than providing medical services, and to improve health people need to promote the environment in a sustainable and equitable way.
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David Tilman by Faiyaz Bhojani, Royal Dutch Shell, and Nsedu Obot David D Fukuzawa Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, The Kresge Foundation University of Minnesota Witherspoon, Children's Environmental Health Network.
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