Changing practices for understanding and making healthy urban environments

This chapter addresses the third aim of the book, and is concerned with how to intervene in cities and make them healthy from a more-than-human perspective. Drawing on contributions from the literature synthesised in Part I and the arguments developed through Chapters 5 and 6, it presents innovative ideas for reorienting research, policy and professional practices to a more-than-human perspective. Using international examples, it raises the question of non-human personhood and illustrates how more-than-human agencies have changed cities for the better.