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Healthy High Streets: Good place-making in an urban setting

This report synthesises the latest and most relevant evidence. Specifically, the report examines how important features of the high street can positively impact on social cohesion, and on mental and physical health. It provides street design principles. Good for making high streets more inclusive, safe and healthy and that promote social integration, particularly in areas […]

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Healthy Built Environment Linkages Toolkit

This 80-page toolkit is very comprehensive and describes how population health is influenced by the design of our neighbourhoods, housing, transportation systems, natural environments and food systems. It brings together research based key messages that correlate land-use planning decisions, impacts on the built environment and population health. Health professionals and others working to assist local

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Cities Alive: Designing for urban childhoods

This report highlights why and how city stakeholders should start to create child-friendly urban environments. It begins by highlighting the changing urban context, then sets out five core challenges of urban childhoods: traffic and pollution; high-rise living and urban sprawl; crime, social fears and risk aversion; isolation and intolerance; and inadequate and unequal access to

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Bending the curve on urban diabetes: New research approaches and innovative interventions for tackling diabetes in your city

This briefing presents highlights from research and diabetes action pilots in eight cities worldwide. The approach demonstrates how urban planning needs to be embedded as a solution to this health challenge. The focus is obesity, the single most significant driver of diabetes. Pitched against an objective to hold the rise of diabetes prevalence to 10%

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Reforming urban laws in Africa: a practical guide

This guide focuses on the law-making implementation challenge: how to make progress with an intention to make better laws for towns and cities in Africa. It proposes an approach to urban law-making that is grounded in an understanding of the local context. Produced largely by the African Centre for Cities, experience from senior practitioner researchers

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