How to Build a Healthy City

By: Financial Times
  • Summary

  • Today's cities - home to more than half the world's population - are struggling to deal with a harmful mix of public health problems: populations are ageing, obesity is rising and pollution has reached toxic levels.


    What are cities doing to tackle these enormous problems? In this six-part series, Darren Dodd talks to Financial Times correspondents around the world - from Singapore to Copenhagen - about initiatives designed to make cities healthier and more pleasant places to live.


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Episodes
  • Coronavirus exposes health inequalities at heart of city life
    Jun 18 2020

    Darren Dodd talks to FT correspondents about how the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the health inequalities in many of the world's great cities and what can be done to address these problems.


    Simon Kuper is our Life and Arts columnist based in Paris. He discusses local attempts to make the French capital greener and more child-friendly, as well as efforts to address the stark divides between wealthy Parisians living in the centre and the poorer residents on the city's periphery.


    Amy Kazmin is our South Asia bureau chief, based in New Delhi. She describes the traumatic lockdown experience of India's migrant workers and the difficulties of maintaining public health in densely-packed cities.


    And finally, Robert Shrimsley, the FT's chief UK political commentator and editor at large, discusses the coronavirus experience of Britain's big cities and the disproportionate impact on poorer communities.


    You can catch up with the complete series at www.ft.com/healthy-city.


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    29 mins
  • Tokyo and healthy eating
    Mar 24 2020
    Japanese cuisine has long been famous for its healthy properties but what makes it so special? Is it responsible for the impressive longevity of the Japanese? And is it still popular in the modern age of processed food? Darren Dodd talks to Leo Lewis, FT Tokyo correspondent about the myths and realities of washoku, the traditional Japanese diet.

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    25 mins
  • New York and fitness
    Mar 17 2020

    New York is in the middle of a boutique fitness boom. Manhattanites can choose from a wide range of Insta-friendly - but pricey - gyms, offering everything from spin classes to workouts in a giant fridge. But what options are available in poorer neighbourhoods? In this episode, Darren Dodd discusses a tale of two cities with Hannah Kuchler, the FT’s US pharma correspondent.


    This podcast is supported by Novo Nordisk. To read more FT health coverage, visit FT.com/reports


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    28 mins

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