Planning for Healthy Communities

Equitable Approaches

Joongsub Kim

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Routledge
16 September 2025

City & town planning - architectural aspects; Development studies; Public health & preventive medicine; Urban & municipal planning; Civil engineering, surveying & building

Series: Health and the Built Environment

This book investigates multi-disciplinary approaches to addressing the health of disadvantaged communities through equitable community development systems (CDSs).

The core concepts underlying the book are three dimensions of support infrastructure (people: human-centering; place: place-cultivating; and ecosystem: sustainable capitalization), leveraging several theories (community capital, social justice) from community development. This book is based on the results of a recent grassroots, citywide engagement-driven initiative in Detroit, and on best-practice case studies in Chicago, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Richmond, and Portland. The initiative’s significant outcomes include a consensus—bolstered by those case studies—on seven components deemed essential to an equitable system for community development. This book proposes that the CDS can enhance community health if at least the following requirements are met: (1) adoption of a community-vitality framework as a citywide shared narrative; (2) coordination across financial institutions to allocate funds equitably to underserved communities; and (3) implementation of system governance with stronger attention to resident voices.

This book demonstrates that bottom-up CDSs can and should be leveraged to enhance the health of underserved communities and investigates how best to address the three requirements to make the equitable system-based approach work effectively in practice. The audience of community development and community health actors will learn from Detroit and the case studies—offering lessons for other cities facing similar issues—how to leverage equitable CDSs to promote healthy communities.

By: Joongsub Kim
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9781032680279
ISBN 10: 103268027X
Series: Health and the Built Environment
Pages: 118
Publication Date: 16 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joongsub Kim, PhD, FAIA, AICP, is a full professor at Lawrence Technological University (Michigan, United States) and directs its Detroit Studio. He has engaged in various applied research projects in socially responsive design, community development, urban design, and environmental psychology. He has also served as a reviewer for grant competitions for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Kresge Foundation in the United States. He has received numerous grants and other awards from National Endowment for the Arts, National Science Foundation, American Institute of Architects, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Kellogg Foundation, Graham Foundation, and more. His work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals, and his book entitled What Do Design Reviewers Really Do? was published in 2019.

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Planning for Healthy Communities

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Joongsub Kim

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