In this article, we ask how city planners can reorient urban governance to focus on health equity? We explore health equity planning in the City of Richmond, California, where planners are leading an integrated strategy to promote equity...
moreIn this article, we ask how city planners can reorient urban governance to focus on health equity? We explore health equity planning in the City of Richmond, California, where planners are leading an integrated strategy to promote equity by addressing structural racism and many place-based “toxic stressors.” We explore the evolution of Richmond’s health equity planning from integrating health into a general plan, to neighborhood-based interventions, violence reduction programs, and drafting a Health in All Policies (HiAP) equity-focused strategy and ordinance. We suggest that making health equity planning work demands an explicitly relational approach to urban governance
