Empowering healthy cities: A multi-criteria framework for evaluating green space interventions
Integrating green spaces into urban planning is crucial for public health. This framework guides cities in evaluating and optimizing their green space strategies to promote health and sustainability, aligning with WHO’s Healthy Cities initiative.
Mapping emotions for designing mentally healthy cities
Emotions are an inherent aspect of people’s lives, and understanding the emotional response of people to the built environment can offer valuable insights into the spatiotemporal characteristics of urban spaces and their impact on the well-being of residents.
Enhancing urban parks: Practical tool for promoting activity in dense city areas
Discover how our innovative audit tool transforms urban parks into activity-friendly spaces. Designed specifically for dense city areas, this tool helps decision-makers enhance park features, promoting healthier and more active communities.
Children’s access to urban greenspace: an overview of factors, and how it can be measured
Access to greenspace impacts children’s physical, social, and mental health. While the factors affecting children are different from those affecting the general population, many accessibility measures use the same principles for children as they use for the general population. We present a comprehensive visual overview of factors affecting children’s access, how it can be measured across geographical contexts, and what measures remain to be developed.
Perceived urban quality and well-being during post-earthquake shelter projects (MAPs and CASE) in L’Aquila, Italy
Although the CASE and MAPs were supposed to be temporary shelters for displaced persons, after fourteen years, they have not received proper maintenance and are dilapidated. This scenario opens to the idea that living in these places could negatively affect different psychological aspects, including perceived urban quality and environmental well-being.