SYNOPSIS:

How can we design cities that radically improve our health and accelerate economic growth? The need for bold solutions and innovative commercial strategies has never been greater. Cities face mounting, converging challenges: climate change, housing crises, spiralling debt and ageing populations.

To address these, urban leaders must find ways to reduce operational and healthcare costs, stimulate economic growth and attract investment, all while ensuring cities remain vibrant and desirable places to live and raise families. Healthy cities supported by sustainable buildings and resilient infrastructure are the most effective and cost-efficient safeguard against urban decline.

This book provides a compelling, data-driven roadmap for urban stakeholders, showing how to boost public health, cut costs and drive economic growth. Each chapter breaks down the biological, economic and societal impacts of urban challenges, complete with practical, actionable solutions rooted in real-world case studies and detailed research.

This is a must-read for designers, developers, residents, policymakers, founders, and anyone passionate about shaping the future of our cities.

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REVIEWS:

“A fascinating journey into how we could all improve the cities around us. It will probably surprise you and certainly inspire you to think more deeply about the everyday and the future state so we can all work on making our cities better places to live, work and play as we face into an ever-changing world.”

Rachael Sherratt, Sustainable Business Transformation Director at The Crown Estate

“I predict that this will become a go-to guide for practitioners, policymakers and citizens who want to understand how building healthier cities is the route to economic growth. Prince-Parrott doesn’t gild-thelily in outlining the challenges we are facing but he outlines clear and pragmatic possible routes to success.”

Leanne Tritton, Chair, The London Society

“Urban Healthonomics is a transformative read for urban planners, policymakers, and anyone passionate about sustainable development. This book brilliantly combines practical strategies and visionary thinking at a time when the correlation between healthier urban environments and economic prosperity is, at last, firmly in the spotlight. An essential addition to the bookshelf of anyone looking to understand the critical and multi-layered links between public health and economic growth, it’s a must-read for those committed to shaping the future of urban living.”

Alexandra Notay, Hon MRTPI, Chair of the RBT Housing Commission

“Urban Healthonomics is essential reading for anyone involved in shaping our urban future. Cities don't have to choose between being healthy or prosperous; they can be both. Martin masterfully weaves together public health, urban design, and economics to demonstrate that cities which prioritise human wellbeing are both more pleasant and more profitable.

His detailed stakeholder-specific solutions provide a playbook for turning healthy cities from a phrase into a reality.”

Packy McCormick, Writer, Not Boring

“Martin Prince-Parrott is a leading voice at the intersection of urbanism, technology, and progress. Urban Healthonomics introduces Moore’s law for healthy cities and inspiringly concludes each chapter with a call for innovation through startups. This is a fresh approach in the world of urbanism that needs to go mainstream. We must think more exponentially about scaling cities and their highly productive populations. Urban acceleration is critical to economic growth and tackling humanity’s most pressing challenges.”

Laura Fingal-Surma, Founder of Urbanist Ventures