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Towards Healthy Cities – Three Key Issues
The article analyses the role of urban and environmental planning in the promotion of actions that improve the health and wellbeing of citizens. The first section describes the crucial action made by WHO through the “Healthy Cities” movement. The central part includes a reflection on the critical aspects connected to the renewed allegiance of urban planning and health and wellbeing promotion, identifying three major issues behind the success of this approach. The first issue complies with the importance of improving environmental comfort as an answer to the negative effects of climate change. The second one is the use of technology in the enhancement of public spaces in terms of performance and use. The last one concentrates on the importance of assessment and the necessity of not stifling it between numbers and determinism. In conclusion, two important aspects of this methodology are highlighted: the role of communities and the tactical approach.
Towards Healthy Cities – Three Key Issues
The article analyses the role of urban and environmental planning in the promotion of actions that improve the health and wellbeing of citizens. The first section describes the crucial action made by WHO through the “Healthy Cities” movement. The central part includes a reflection on the critical aspects connected to the renewed allegiance of urban planning and health and wellbeing promotion, identifying three major issues behind the success of this approach. The first issue complies with the importance of improving environmental comfort as an answer to the negative effects of climate change. The second one is the use of technology in the enhancement of public spaces in terms of performance and use. The last one concentrates on the importance of assessment and the necessity of not stifling it between numbers and determinism. In conclusion, two important aspects of this methodology are highlighted: the role of communities and the tactical approach.
Towards Healthy Cities – Three Key Issues
Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
Bevilacqua, Carmelina (editor) / Calabrò, Francesco (editor) / Della Spina, Lucia (editor) / Zupi, Massimo (author) / Celani, Pierfrancesco (author)
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: New Metropolitan Perspectives ; 2020 ; Online, Italy
2020-09-01
9 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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