Abstract
The fields of urban planning and public health were conceived under the same pressures and goals at their inception in the 17th and 18th centuries and continue to address the health concerns of an ever-increasing urban population. While the mutual need that both philosophies have for each other becomes more tangible through research and practice, the application of their interrelatedness continues to benefit residents and visitors of mindfully-built environments. In health-conscious Los Angeles, there lacks a comprehensive assessment of health-centered considerations being implemented by those entrusted with the responsibility of shaping our cities. As a greater majority of the world’s population moves into urban settings, built environment interventions play a progressively vital role in addressing physical and mental health concerns. This piece hopes to bring to attention the need for focused and dynamic approaches in addressing health concerns by means of design, planning, and policy, by focusing on the challenges and opportunities faced by the geographic and human resources of the Greater Los Angeles area.
Highlights
A Human EnvironmentThe assurance of food security provided by the First Agricultural Revolution and its subsequent allowance for the exchange of food and ideas, solidified the impetus for high-density human settlements [1]
With expectations to steadily continue its growth in population and to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, leaders will be entrusted with the responsibility of utilizing geography and built environments as a means for investing in and optimizing Los Angeles’s human and economic potential, in the coming years
In the formation of neighborhoods with ideal living environments, the requisite reminder is that safety, sustainability, and access cannot be high-end commodities if health equity and optimization are to be achieved
Summary
The assurance of food security provided by the First Agricultural Revolution and its subsequent allowance for the exchange of food and ideas, solidified the impetus for high-density human settlements [1]. Anthropological theories tend to accredit the formation of high-density settlements to the natural economic viability of a centralized location where food could be transported, stored, and traded with a breadth of services provided by individuals who have pursued occupational specialties The maintenance of this economic viability relies on the positive surplus of these and other benefits over liabilities such as crime and disease. Eurasia, and the Americas were constructed with varying systems for aqueducts and sewers to support the population’s needs for water and sanitation The summation of these practices continues today, apart from earlier understandings of religious or social taboo, as a component necessary to both public health and urban planning
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