Why cities need a systemic health check and how they can do it
Cities urgently need systemic health checks. Without them, they keep fixing symptoms, wasting scarce budgets… while hidden risks grow. Our proposed approach helps cities understand their true health and activate their self-healing capacity instead of constantly ‘firefighting’.
Development intensity is linked to stroke risk
A continued focus by planners on enhancing environments in ways that have been shown to benefit cardiovascular health and promote physical activity may also contribute to lowering the risk of incident stroke. We found that people living in areas with greater development intensity had a lower risk of stroke. Our study suggests that development intensity in 8-km road networks, measured over time, matters for stroke risk.