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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Gary Fuller

Why health and wellbeing should be at centre of urban planning

Children and parent volunteers ride their bicycles to school on car-free streets in Barcelona, Spain
Children and parent volunteers ride bicycles to school on car-free streets in Barcelona, Spain. Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters

Epidemics of cholera and other infectious diseases in the 19th century taught us that clean drinking water, sewage and waste collection were essential for healthy cities.

Now scientists around the world are thinking about how the way we build and operate modern infrastructure relates to the everyday burden of illness.

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