Assessing the urban environment is crucial for enhancing mental well-being. It is imperative to identify relevant indicators and establish a comprehensive framework to measure the impact effectively. This approach is essential for initiating strategic interventions aimed at improving mental health outcomes.
Make the neighbourhoods of your city age friendlier by using tools that support more informed decision-making. Are you an urban planner or a policy maker interested in knowing how age-friendly the neighbourhoods of your city are? Would you like to know how to improve them?
Our study evaluates the reliability (consistency) of a local tool for measuring health determinants in public spaces, using a co-creation process with older adults living in care homes in Barcelona. It highlights the importance of inclusive urban planning and the varied perspectives of community members in enhancing urban health.
We used a case study approach to highlight potential radical health tools that could be embedded in research projects to enable us to understand more about how nature impacts health and wellbeing.
There are so many neighbourhood-level drivers that impact our health that making sense of all the data can be difficult. This tool helps us understand
We compared cross-city differences in the walking environment in Madrid and Philadelphia as a case study
City residential streets offer an opportunity to give back to nature, making changes to make them a habitat for wildlife. Our study investigated the behaviour of rewilding
Residential segregation by socioeconomic status in Chilean cities is not well described by classical dimensions developed in USA in terms of race. We suggest that
New analysis methods were assessed. The majority of audit tool items showed moderate/almost perfect reliability. The desktop method was a valid alternative to on-site auditing, truncated but more time-efficient and economical.
With new advances in public participation Geographic Information Systems and the increasing use such these tools for participatory mapping of various spatial data, urban designers need to understand the usefulness of these tools in investigating micro-scale physical characteristics of urban settings.