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Safe, healthy, and accessible neighbourhood public spaces transform children’s lives in cities

July 15, 2024

This paper investigates how health-promoting planning strategies are leveraged in place-based urban transformation initiatives to develop public spaces within neighbourhoods to improve children’s and community wellbeing. Safe, healthy, and accessible neighbourhood public spaces transform children’s lives in cities.

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How to design neighbourhood outdoor spaces to improve the mental health of all citizens?

July 14, 2024

Poorly designed neighbourhood outdoor spaces can harm citizens’ mental health, such as presenting them with information overload, crowding or low exposure to nature. Our research explored which design elements can support urban designers in designing neighbourhood outdoor spaces that can reduce stress and attention fatigue and improve the mental health of all citizens.

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Addressing urban health with older adults: co-creating an age-friendly urban design in Barcelona

July 14, 2024

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.

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Professional’s insights into planning and designing for extreme heat

July 12, 2024

Our urban environments are getting hotter, yet urban design and planning solutions which can mitigate heat are rarely used. There is a need for further education and strategic planning policy positions to support heat mitigation policy and practice in the built environment.

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Using a liveability index as a mechanism to appraise city quality for healthy ageing

July 6, 2024

Urban health is a complex system that involves several indicators acting together, there is no single solution to the health-related issues in cities. We wanted to promote healthy ageing in urban living. Our strategy was to take people’s needs and demands into account, when evaluating, monitoring and proposing feasible changes in built, natural and social environments.

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The value of incorporating inhabitants’ perspectives on health into municipal spatial planning processes

July 3, 2024

Stronger collaboration with inhabitants could ensure more attention on health in spatial plan development.

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United communities: Embracing community participation through public open space planning in Aotearoa New Zealand

July 3, 2024

Implementing community participation in planning of public open spaces is one of the most useful and effective means to encourage a higher sense of community.

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The answer is ‘runnable’ cities!

July 3, 2024

The ‘runnability of cities’ as a novel spatial planning approach can enhance healthier and more enabling environments for everyone.

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Therapeutic potentials of soundscape and natural landscape for health and urban sustainability

May 23, 2024

We highlight the beneficial interactions of “sensescapes”, the combination of soundscapes and natural landscapes, on psycho-physiological health. Our work shows the significance of interdisciplinary urban design and planning in harnessing these benefits – to enhance health and urban sustainability through the integration of nature’s influences on the body and mind.

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Links between teenage mental health and urban design quality: Using ecological momentary assessment

May 4, 2024

Urban environments influence mental health and development of younger populations. This study explores associations between adolescent mental health indicators and design characteristics. Implications include recommendations for planners and urban designer to promote psychological well-being.

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