To compare with last few decades, now healthy communuties and healthy cities are more important issue. Many government, many associations and people try to answer this question “What is a healthy city? ”. This question may be answered that a healthy city has regularly changing and developing social and physical environment. These social and physical environment can be explained enough food, clean water and air, adequate resources, good income, safety, education and social support. The idea of how we can make a healthier city has put another question mark on people’s mind.
What makes a community healthy? Healthy community may be regarded as high quality of life. It is clear that there is strong relationship between healthy city and healthy community. Therefore, people have developed mainly two ways to build healthier city and community with the help of this relationship. First of all, in order to create healthy community and healthy city, the design of city may be given more importance. Namely, the structure of city may be redesigned according to increasing population and changing life standards.
For example, if there are not enough houses, new buildings may be built. According to the increasing population, new job opportunities may be created by government because if people do not earn enough money, they cannot be healthy people and healthy family. Another important issue is transportation system in the city because if there is not regular transportation system, people are likely to face traffic problems that leads air and noise pollution. This problem affects negatively not only health of city, but also health of community.
Furthermore, if people want to create healthy city, they should provide adequate hospital, schools, police station that are necessary for all cities. All people can reach easily these buildings and if these buildings are very old, they should be changed or modified according to new needs. In addition to these basic needs, in order to protect health of city and health of community, the city’s living standards may be improved. For example, factories are likely to be moved out of the city because these buildings pollute the city.
Both air and water in the city are affected adversely. Moreover, factories may create visual pollution that damage health of community and city. Actually, the image of the city might be developed thanks to parks, forests. These areas can help protect health of city and health of community. Secondly, in order to build healthier city and healthier community, it is required that people attract attention about health of city and community. In other words, people may be informed about how clean their environment and they should have more responsibility in this issue.
The physical structure of city is very important subject, but if people do not support this movement what makes a community or city healthy, we may not be successful in a creating healthy city and community. In order to support this movement, initially the participation of children and teenagers may be increased. Namely, they should be made conscious about healthy city and healthy community. Especially schools are good way to learn how protect their environment and city. That is, schools provide an environment in which students can gain the sense of environment protection.
For example, additional courses may be beneficial. Moreover, advertisement and popular people are likely to raise awaraness of healthy city for children and teenagers. In addition to youths, adults may be informed about this issue because they are example for children. Adults should join willingly some projects and organizations in order to have more information. However, we cannot expect all people are volunteer in this issue. For this reason, laws may be an effective solution to attract people’s attention. Therefore, government should show more interest in this issue.
Consequently, if people want to find several ways to creat a healthy city and healthy community, they can do it. If cities are redesigned according to changing human needs and people are more sensitive about this issue, the number of healthy cities and healthy communities increases. These suggestions are not very difficult. In contrast, they can be done if really want. Actually, nobody expect the world change immediately but even small things we can creat great effects. Maybe, one people cannot change all cities, but many people together are likely to be succeed in this. Therefore, we and our children can live healthier world.
