Preface.- Part I - The City for Better Living.- 1.1 For the "human" development of cities in an era of climate change.- 1.2 Goals, opportunities and limits to the European Healthy Cities network.- 1.3 Criteria of healthfulness in Urban Environment: from a theoretical debate to some early experiments.- 1.4 Appendix n.1 - Expert knowledge.- 1.4.1 Creating healthy and child friendly places in Belfast: Jonna Monaghan and Laura McDonald, Belfast Healthy Cities.- 1.4.2 Bologna_Healthy City: Social Sustainability, Urban Projects, and Innovations in Agreements: Luca Rizzo Nervo.- Part II-Healthy Urban Planning in Europe: 2.1 The need for new urban planning for healthy cities: reorienting urban planning towards healthy public policy.- 2.2 Health promotion and urban sustainability: a perspective on the duality.- 2.3 The crucial point in assessing plans and projects for the health cities.- 2.4 Comparing European cities on the road to integrating Health and Urban Planning.- 2.5 Appendix n.2 - City Experiences.- 2.5.1 Bristol's parks and green space strategy: Piera Pellegrino.- 2.5.2 Rennes- Restructuration de la halte ferroviaire de Pontchaillou: Michela Tolli.- 2.5.3 Healthy Poznan (HP) - Health Development Plan for the City of Poznan: Flavio Stimilli.- 2.5.4 The Hirvensalo District Master Plan: health impacts of three structural models in Hirvensalo - Turku: Chiara Camaioni.- Part III- Planning and Designing Healthy Cities and Communities: 3.1 Improving health through community urban planning and design.- 3. 2 Best Practices around the world: some suggestions for European cities.-3.3 Urban Planning and Design centered on health metrics.