{"id":8734,"date":"2022-06-13T04:05:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T04:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/in\/?post_type=product&#038;p=8734"},"modified":"2022-06-13T04:05:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T04:05:43","slug":"urban-living-makes-us-miserable-this-city-is-trying-to-change-that","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/in\/urban-living-makes-us-miserable-this-city-is-trying-to-change-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban living makes us miserable. This city is trying to change that"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"standfirst\" class=\"article__standfirst\">Glasgow has become notorious for the kind of mental and physical ills that plague city dwellers everywhere. Is urban life itself harmful to humans \u2013\u00a0or can we rethink cities so that they can help us to\u00a0thrive?<\/h4>\n<aside class=\"article__aside\">\n<div class=\"article__aside__section article__share-buttons\" role=\"group\">\n<div class=\"share-buttons\" role=\"group\">\n<div class=\"paragraph paragraph--text\">\n<p>If you live in Glasgow, you are more likely to die young. Men there die a full seven years earlier than their counterparts in other UK cities. Until recently, the causes of this excess mortality remained a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeep-fried Mars bars,\u201d some have speculated. \u201cThe weather,\u201d others suggested. For years, those reasons were as good as any. In 2012, the\u00a0<em>Economist<\/em>\u00a0described it thus: \u201cIt is as if a malign vapour rises from the Clyde at night and settles in the lungs of sleeping Glaswegians.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph paragraph--text\">\n<p>The phenomenon has become known as the Glasgow Effect. But David Walsh, a public health programme manager at the Glasgow Centre for Population Health, who led a study on the excess deaths in 2010, wasn\u2019t satisfied with how the term was being used. \u201cIt turned into a Scooby-Doo mystery but it\u2019s not an exciting thing. It\u2019s about people dying young, it\u2019s about grief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wanted to work out why Glaswegians have a 30 per cent higher risk of dying prematurely \u2013 that is, before the age of 65 \u2013 than those living in similar post-industrial British cities. In 2016 his team published a report looking at 40 hypotheses \u2013 from vitamin D deficiency to obesity and sectarianism. \u201cThe most important reason is high levels of poverty, full stop,\u201d says Walsh. \u201cThere\u2019s one in three children who are classed as living in poverty at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But even with deprivation accounted for, mortality rates in Glasgow remained inexplicable. Deaths in each income group are about 15 per cent higher than in Manchester or Liverpool. In particular, deaths from \u201cdiseases of despair\u201d \u2013 drug overdoses, suicides and alcohol-related deaths \u2013 are high. In the mid-2000s, after adjusting for sex, age and deprivation, there was almost a 70 per cent higher mortality rate for suicide in Glasgow than in the two English cities.<\/p>\n<h4>Reference:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>David Walsh\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcph.co.uk\/assets\/0000\/5586\/History_politics_and_vulnerability.pdf\">report on the causes of excess mortality in Glasgow<\/a>\u00a0[PDF]<\/li>\n<li>Emily Cutts\u2019s\u00a0account of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechildrenswood.co.uk\/the-dear-wild-place-greenspaces-community-and-campaigning\/\">her campaign to save the meadow and set up the Children\u2019s\u00a0Wood<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Carol Craig on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/postcardsfromscotland.co.uk\/hiding-in-plain-sight\">social, historical and economic factors behind poor health in Scotland<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jane Jacobs\u2019s 1958 article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2011\/09\/18\/downtown-is-for-people-fortune-classic-1958\/\">Downtown is for People<\/a>\u201d in Fortune magazine<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.uur.cz\/pdf\/charter-of-athens-1933.pdf\">Le Corbusier\u2019s vision of a modern city<\/a>\u00a0[PDF]<\/li>\n<li>Architect Oscar Newman on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huduser.gov\/portal\/publications\/def.pdf\">the concept of \u201cDefensible Space\u201d<\/a>\u00a0[PDF]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 750px; border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/online.visual-paradigm.com\/share\/book\/urban-living-makes-us-miserable-this-city-is-trying-to-change-that-zi5hfr68p?enforceShowPromotionBar=true\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8738,"template":"","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Best infographic editor guide - Learn how to print out your great infographic designed with Visual Paradigm's online infographic maker."},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[183],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8734","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-environment","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Urban living makes us miserable. 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