Urban Health

The growth of urban health, perhaps in parallel with the global growth of urban living, represents an exciting evolution in an interdisciplinary field. As more scholarship emerges in this area, the opportunity for transdisciplinary synthesis increases, making way for a whole new scholarship that will help us better understand the particular challenges and opportunities presented by characteristics of cities as it adopts methods and approaches from long-established disciplines. This chapter brings together concepts presented in the preceding chapters of this book, summarizing key points with an eye to pointing the way to the next decade of scholarship in urban health.