A local plan is a statutory policy document that supports urban development decisions
across a local government area in England. Local plans are reported to need more specific …

Although healthy building rating systems include health strategies in the building design and
management, they insufficiently consider occupants' motivations to engage in and the …

In the middle of the twentieth century, the Western Harbour in Malmö, Sweden, was a port
and the world's largest shipyard. Now the area is a global exemplar of sustainable urbanism …

Healthy urban development, in the form of buildings and infrastructure, is necessary to
reduce disease and injury internationally. The urban development process is complex …

Scholars, practitioners and policymakers view urban health based on their foundational
ontologies, or paradigms, which provide a framework of norms that specifies the policy goals …

Impacts of housing on health are well-recognised. Despite this, housing standards have
been neglected and there are gaps in healthy housing policies, particularly in low and …

Few studies have examined associations between indoor conditions and creativity, despite
its importance to knowledge work. Accordingly, we investigate associations between indoor …

Health, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO)(2016), is “a condition of
complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not only the absence of sickness or …

Air pollution, the presence of harmful or excessive concentrations of pollutants in the Earth's
atmosphere, results in severe health impacts, including respiratory and cardiovascular …

This article focuses on how short-termism impacts on the quality of urban development and,
in turn, both population and planetary health. The first section of the paper clarifies key terms …