Challenges for Sustainable Cities in Low-Income Urban Communities

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to study the environmental health conditions in low-income urban communities of third world countries. By exploring the dimensions of a sustainable healthy cites or cites that contributes to sustainable urban health development and evaluates the findings based on the secondary data. At the first, urban health problems of the third world have been discussed like problems due to congestion or Sprawl and sustainable urban health framework for the third world cities is reached. Secondly, recognizing the components of a sustainable health city, the discussion went on evaluating the earlier available frameworks. The paper concludes with five recommendations establishing that problems of third world urban communities is the problem of the cities that contribute to Sustainable development but developed cities also have the problems with reference to requirements for a sustainable city.