Urban planning

My thesis is Urban planning and public health in London. The topic in my essay is urban planning will give people a good public health and improve the quality of living. Therefore, the relationship between urban planning and public health is close. I want to use this essay to introduce the importance of urban planning.
Jason Corburn, PhD, MCP Confronting the Challenges in Reconnecting Urban Planning and Public Health, 2003.
This article talks about the connection between urban planning and public health. At first, the author think that urban planning develop the public health. The urban planning can help people to get a good environment and good public health. Second, the article talks the relationship between urban planning and public health, and point the connection between them has lost. People should connect them again, and then provide better public health than before. Third, the article introduce how to reconnect the public health and urban planning. It emphasizes that the government is the most important role.
From this article, I know how importance between urban planning and public health, and the urban planning how to develop the public health. It also introduce some reports about the urban planning, such as the Haussman model. The article give me a direct impression of urban planning and the importance of it. If the connection between urban planning and public health break, then the situation of public health will become terrible. This article also introduce how to connect them again, but it is not useful in my essay.
Jeff Copeland, The Lethal London Smog Event 5th- 9th December 1952, 2009.
This article introduce the smog event in London in 1952. First, it introduce what is the smog event and how many people died in this event. This event lead the situation of public health in London to become very terrible. Then it analysis the reason of the smog event. There about four main reasons: non-industrial; meteorological; industrial and vehicles.
I think it is a good report about the smog event in London in 952. This article provide enough data and reports about the event. It gives me many good examples, and let me know the reasons of this terrible thing. The main subject in this article is analysis these reasons. It shows that the urban planning influence the public health directly.
The London Smog Disaster of 1952-Days of toxic darkness. Retrieved November 3, 2009, from the world wide
web :/studentwebs/session4/27/greatsmog52.htm The article use scientific point to analysis the great smog in London in 1952. It use science data to introduce the reason of the smog event. Then it point out that the air pollution is the main reason of the smog event. The air pollution lead many people suffered from chronic respiratory and cardiovascular complaints. In the end, it also talks about many people died in this event, especially the children and old people.
This article give me enough science data to help me to introduce the smog event in 1952. From this article I get many information about the respiratory disease,
and why many people died. I also get some suggestions about how to control the air pollution through the urban planning in this article.。