Today, urban and transport planners face considerable challenges in designing and
retrofitting cities that are prepared for increasing urban populations, and their service and …

Public health practitioners produce urban health indicator (UHI) tools to inform built
environment policy and decision-making, among other objectives. Indicator producers …

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 …

The history of healthy city planning can be traced back to the beginning of the 19th century.
Since the industrialization period, the harsh living conditions of cities and the outbreak of …

Background: Population-level physical activity increases are improbable without
intersectoral collaboration across government levels and sectors to develop and implement …

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 …

Visions of livable neighborhoods are receiving increasing priority on contemporary city-
making agendas. Yet, while city-makers have long turned to various tools supporting …

Urban health inequities often reflect and follow the geographic patterns of inequality in the
social, economic and environmental conditions within a city—the so-called determinants of …

Das Verständnis komplexer Zusammenhänge zwischen physischer und sozialer
Lebensumwelt und Gesundheit im urbanen Raum ist essentiell für die Entwicklung …

Rapidly growing cities face new and compounding health challenges, leading governments
and donors to seek innovative ways to support healthier, more resilient urban growth. One …