Cecily Maller's newest contribution to the rapidly growing body of literature on healthy urban environments is a welcome addition. Healthy Urban Environments: More‐than‐Human Theories makes a unique theoretical contribution to scholarship by moving beyond the predominantly deterministic view that built form unilaterally shapes human health. Thus, she joins company with few others who recently have attempted to incorporate more‐than‐human and posthuman perspectives into the sub‐field of health geography (Andrews, 2018, 2019; Duff, 2018).

The book begins with a detailed introduction to the emergence of healthy urban environments as a sub‐field of research and practice that engages urban planning and public health disciplines. Maller makes expected mention of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and the World Health Organization's Healthy Cities program. She acknowledges the overlap between these health agendas and more recent sustainability initiatives such as the United Nation's New Urban Agenda. Early on, Maller builds the case for a broader conceptualisation of health to include more‐than‐human phenomena into existing ideals of healthy urban environments. This approach requires a reordering of the human‐nature‐material hierarchy, which augments views that built environments produce human health via air quality, physical activity, and diet.

Healthy Urban Environments is divided into two parts. The first provides a comprehensive introduction to three theories that Maller uses to shed light on the more‐than‐human aspects of healthy urban environments. She discusses non‐representational perspectives prioritising relational ontologies and non‐binary approaches to understand the complex interactions between living and non‐living aspects of place. Specifically in this part of the book, Maller dedicates a chapter to each of three aforementioned theoretical turns that constitute her approach: (1) the affective turn and its attention to the role of affect and emotion in current understandings of urban environments; (2) the new materialist turn and the role of non‐human beings as social phenomena connected to the human experience and worthy of political attention; and (3) the practice turn, which is capable of connecting agency and structure, the material and cultura,l to inform everyday routines and practices comprising more‐than‐human experiences of place. This first part of the book is both comprehensive and intellectually rigorous, and I have already recommended these chapters to students and colleagues looking to delve into non‐representational and more‐than‐human readings of place.

The second part of the book is more pragmatically focused on how more‐than‐ can be incorporated into healthy urban environments research and practice. Maller does this work by acknowledging health as a more‐than‐ concept and cities as more‐than‐ habitats, highlighting for both public health and urban planning audiences the need for theoretical reorientation. Maller's expertise in social practice is prominent in this this part, in which she provides an especially strong and prescriptive chapter on how research and policymaking can be enhanced by adopting more‐than‐ approaches to address the complexity of urban environments.

Maller also elucidates the importance of and realities involved in decentring humans and the need to prioritise, in understandings of healthy urban environments, more awareness of living non‐humans—that is, urban flora and fauna. She draws on work that highlights, for example, the adaptability of Australian bush turkeys and white‐tailed deer in the United States; acknowledges how policymakers treat urban green and blues spaces as amenities rather than necessities of urban life; and shows how material infrastructures have been ill‐considered or ignored in health practices.

This book is very well written and timely and captures recent debates among planners, geographers, public health experts, and others engaged in research and policymaking on healthy urban environments. It engages and critiques an interdisciplinary body of urban health literature with a strong reliance on the non‐representational work put forth by geographers. I would like to have seen more engagement with the work of health geographers also writing about non‐representational and posthuman approaches to health and place (for example, Andrews, 2014, 2019; Andrews et al., 2014; Andrews & Duff, 2019—and see Volume 57(1) of this journal). While those publications do not engage directly with the healthy urban environments framework Maller uses in this book, they offer an important point of comparison for how to move beyond anthropocentrism, the dominance of representational explanations of human experience, and behaviouralist approaches.

As a health geographer who teaches in a school of urban planning, I especially appreciated two aspects of Maller's work. First is her attempt to retheorise approaches to understanding healthy urban environments. As noted earlier, Maller's push away from the deterministic approach prominent in both research on the healthy urban environments and in the practice realm, where designing new urbanist‐walkable‐mixed‐use‐transit‐oriented developments is treated as the silver bullet to all social ills, including rising chronic diseases and climate change. In Healthy Urban Environments, Maller offers the most comprehensive critique of this body of work to date, while providing a prescriptive discussion about how this new theoretical approach can be taken up in practice.

Primarily, the application of theories of the more‐than‐ is helpful for conceptualising healthy urban environments in an era of climate change where health must encompass more‐than‐ disease and wellbeing. The socio‐ecological model of health and Sustainable Development Goals already directly link natural environmental quality with human health and wellbeing, but do so while maintaining the hierarchy between humans and other living beings. With the IPCC report from October 2018 and cities worldwide declaring climate emergencies, there is an urgency to rethink and re‐do urban environments for the health of the planet as a whole; this is where the innovation of more‐than‐ approach is most apparent, and it is where Healthy Urban Environments and Maller's expertise are especially timely and useful.

塞西莉·马勒（Cecily Maller）对迅速发展的有关健康城市环境的文献的最新贡献令人欢迎。健康的城市环境：“超越人类”理论超越了单方面影响人类健康的主要确定性观点，从而为学术界做出了独特的理论贡献。因此，她加入公司，谁最近试图将更多的超人类和后人类观点纳入医学地理学的子场几个人（安卓，2018，2019 ;达夫，2018）。

该书首先详细介绍了健康的城市环境的出现，将其作为涉及城市规划和公共卫生学科的研究和实践的子领域。Maller期望提及《渥太华健康促进宪章》和世界卫生组织的“健康城市”计划。她承认这些卫生议程与最近的可持续发展举措（例如联合国的《新城市议程》）之间存在重叠。早期，Maller为更广泛的健康概念建立了理由，将超越人类的现象纳入健康的城市环境的现有理想中。这种方法要求对人-自然-物质等级进行重新排序，从而增强了建筑环境通过空气质量，体育活动和饮食来促进人类健康的观点。

健康的城市环境分为两个部分。第一部分全面介绍了Maller用来阐明健康城市环境中比人类更多的方面的三种理论。她讨论了非代表性的观点，这些观点优先考虑了关系本体论和非二进制方法，以了解场所的生活和非生活方面之间的复杂相互作用。特别是在本书的这一部分中，Maller专门为构成她的方法的上述三个理论转折中的每一个分了一章：（1）情感转折及其对情感和情感在当前对城市环境的理解中的作用的关注；（2）新唯物主义转非人类作为社会现象的作用与人类经验有关，值得政治关注；（3）练习转向，它能够将机构和结构，材料和文化联系起来，以告知包括人非凡经历的日常活动和实践。本书的第一部分既全面又思想严谨，我已经向希望深入研究非代表性和超乎寻常的地方读物的学生和同事推荐了这些章节。

本书的第二部分更加务实地关注如何将更多内容纳入健康的城市环境研究和实践。Maller在做这项工作时承认健康是一个概念以外的城市，而城市则是一个栖息地以外的城市，强调公共卫生和城市规划的受众都需要进行理论上的重新定位。在这一部分中，Maller在社会实践中的专业知识十分突出，在这一章中，她提供了一个特别有说服力的说明性章节，说明如何通过采用多种方法来解决城市环境的复杂性来增强研究和政策制定能力。

在理解健康的城市环境时，Maller还阐明了分散人类的重要性和现实，并需要优先考虑，需要更多地了解非人类生物，即城市动植物。她的作品突出了例如澳大利亚灌木火鸡和白尾鹿在美国的适应性。承认政策制定者如何将城市的绿色和蓝色空间视为便利设施，而不是城市生活的必需品；并显示了在医疗实践中如何严重考虑或忽略物质基础设施。

这本书写得很好，很及时，并且涵盖了规划人员，地理学家，公共卫生专家以及其他从事健康城市环境研究和决策的人员之间的近期辩论。它致力于并批判城市卫生文献的一个跨学科机构，并强烈依赖地理学家的非代表性工作。我希望看到更多与卫生地理学家合作的文章，也涉及关于非代表性和后人类的健康与场所方法（例如，安德鲁斯，2014年，2019年;安德鲁斯等人， 2014年;安德鲁斯与达夫，2019年）（请参阅本期刊的第57（1）卷）。尽管这些出版物并未直接与Maller在本书中使用的健康城市环境框架联系在一起，但它们为如何超越人类中心主义，对人类经验的代表性解释的支配以及行为主义方法提供了重要的比较点。

作为在城市规划学校任教的健康地理学家，我特别欣赏Maller的工作的两个方面。首先是她尝试重新设定方法以理解健康的城市环境。如前所述，Maller摒弃了在健康的城市环境和实践领域研究中突出的确定性方法，在设计领域中，设计新的面向城市的，可步行的，混合的，使用的，面向公交的开发被视为所有社会的灵丹妙药疾病，包括日益严重的慢性病和气候变化。在“健康的城市环境”中，Maller提供了迄今为止对这一工作体系的最全面的评论，同时提供了有关如何在实践中采用这种新的理论方法的说明性讨论。

首先，多于理论的应用有助于概念化气候变化时代的健康城市环境，在这个时代，健康必须涵盖疾病和福祉。健康和可持续发展目标的社会生态模型已经直接将自然环境质量与人类健康和福祉联系起来，但是在保持人类与其他生物之间的等级关系的同时做到了这一点。随着IPCC 2018年10月的报告以及全球各大城市宣布气候紧急情况，迫切需要重新思考和重塑城市环境，以维护整个地球的健康。这是超越方式创新最明显的地方，而健康的城市环境和Maller的专业知识尤其及时和有用。