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Friday, June 01, 2012

Urban Environment Planning


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Click to toggle image sizeShaping cities for health: complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century

Prof Yvonne Rydin PhD a Corresponding AuthorEmail AddressAna Bleahu MA aProf Michael Davies PhD aJulio D Dávila PhD aProf Sharon Friel PhD a b,Giovanni De Grandis PhD aProf Nora Groce PhD aPedro C Hallal PhD cIan Hamilton MSc aProf Philippa Howden-Chapman PhDdKa-Man Lai PhD aProf CJ Lim AA Dipl aJuliana Martins MA aDavid Osrin MRCP aIan Ridley PhD eIan Scott PhD aMyfanwy Taylor MSc aPaul Wilkinson FRCP fJames Wilson PhD a

Executive summary

The Healthy Cities movement has been in process for almost 30 years, and the features needed to transform a city into a healthy one are becoming increasingly understood. What is less well understood, however, is how to deliver the potential health benefits and how to ensure that they reach all citizens in urban areas across the world. This task is becoming increasingly important because most of the world's population already live in cities, and, with high rates of urbanisation, many millions more will soon do so in the coming decades.
The Commission met during November, 2009, to June, 2011, to provide an analysis of how health outcomes can be improved through modification of the physical fabric of towns and cities and to discuss the role that urban planning can have in the delivering of health improvements. The Commission began from the premise that cities are complex systems, with urban health outcomes dependent on many interactions and feedback loops, so that prediction within the planning process is fraught with difficulties and unintended consequences are common./.../

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