What can city policy-makers do to mitigate the effects of pandemics on urban life?
By reviewing the studies on the cities in the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak, we could develop a promising perspective for identifying solutions during future similar pandemics.
An ‘adaptive bubble strategy’ incorporating the built environment to maintain older adults’ health and wellbeing
Our ‘adaptive bubble strategy’ illustrates how older adults protect themselves from virus transmission and maintain healthy living activities and psychological wellbeing with the support of the built environment during COVID-19.
Understanding the community and social determinants in mental health inequity: the impact of mass social distancing during COVID-19, USA
The psychological impact of social distancing order during the COVID-19 pandemic can be determined by combining the effects of both individual and community capacities. This study supports the need to improve the physical environment to implement more sustainable health policies in different communities and cities across the world.
Reviewing the impact of neighbourhood design on our health and wellbeing
Our systematic review of the impacts of neighbourhood design on well-being found strong evidence linking design principles such as walkability and access to green space with health and well-being.
Factors that influence urban park access
Park access is about more than just distance to get to the park.
An integrative approach to equitable climate resilience
To plan equitable climate interventions in times of systemic crisis, cities must be trauma-informed and make healing justice a key feature of urban resilience planning.
From data to policies. Let the data speak to make local policies more informed about health and social inequalities in health
From data to policies: let the data speak! Making local policies more evidence- informed about health and health inequalities. Developing a community engagement toolkit to address health inequalities in urban settings.
Solutions to integrate health objectives into new urban development
New research explores how design team professionals manage developers’ risks to integrate health into new urban development
Healthy urbanism framework redefines healthy urban development
New healthy urbanism framework reverses traditional focus on individual lifestyles, focusing on equity, inclusion and sustainability as essential components for urban health.
Food access in cities; making it healthy and equitable through better urban planning and governance
Urban planners, economists, health and community policymakers and practitioners share insights in a new study on creating healthy food environments using urban planning policy and governance levers.