GGR353H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Isolation, Population Health, Garden Organic
Document Summary
Early life experiences social exclusion poverty . discrimination . control of work . stress from job . addiction accessibility to food, jobs. Scope: urban environment planning to tackle the major issues of the areas in most need, a housing complex in glasgow that is run down, unsafe and needs major physical improvements. Approach/methodology: they incorporated the community into the planning process by allowing them to take pictures and explain what they needed to have done- roads, schools, green space for children to play, anything they saw that needed to be addressed. Bottom- up control rather than having someone from the city who has no idea what it is like to interact with that environment making decisions (top-down) Top-down effect does not work at this level, focus on the community and their own experiences. Long term development plans- light/unwelcoming train station/ green space for children/ better access to food and jobs.
