Open AccessDefining Ethical Placemaking for Place-Based Interventions
Author(s) -
Lisa Eckenwiler
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2016.303433
Subject(s) - placemaking , meaning (existential) , psychological intervention , economic justice , sociology , ideal (ethics) , refugee , engineering ethics , public relations , environmental ethics , political science , medicine , nursing , epistemology , law , engineering , urban design , urban planning , philosophy , civil engineering
As place-based interventions expand and evolve, deeper reflection on the meaning of ethical placemaking is essential. I offer a summary account of ethical placemaking, which I propose and define as an ethical ideal and practice for health and for health justice, understood as the capability to be healthy. I point to selected wide-ranging examples-an urban pathway, two long-term care settings, innovations in refugee health services, and a McDonald's restaurant-to help illustrate these ideas.