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Planning Healthy, Liveable and Sustainable Cities: How Can Indicators Inform Policy?
Creating ‘liveable’ communities that are healthy and sustainable is an aspiration of policymakers in Australia and overseas. Indicators are being used at the national, state and local level to compare the liveability of cities and regions. Yet, there are challenges in the adoption of such indicators. Planning scholars see a challenge in creating indicators that measure something publicly valued, while public health researchers are concerned about scant systemic research on relationships between policies, the built environment, and health and well-being. This article provides an overview of liveability indicators used to date in Australia and internationally. It then outlines the results of consultations with Melbourne-based academics and decision-makers, on how to increase their utility and support the creation of healthy, liveable and sustainable cities.
Planning Healthy, Liveable and Sustainable Cities: How Can Indicators Inform Policy?
Creating ‘liveable’ communities that are healthy and sustainable is an aspiration of policymakers in Australia and overseas. Indicators are being used at the national, state and local level to compare the liveability of cities and regions. Yet, there are challenges in the adoption of such indicators. Planning scholars see a challenge in creating indicators that measure something publicly valued, while public health researchers are concerned about scant systemic research on relationships between policies, the built environment, and health and well-being. This article provides an overview of liveability indicators used to date in Australia and internationally. It then outlines the results of consultations with Melbourne-based academics and decision-makers, on how to increase their utility and support the creation of healthy, liveable and sustainable cities.
Planning Healthy, Liveable and Sustainable Cities: How Can Indicators Inform Policy?
Lowe, Melanie (author) / Whitzman, Carolyn (author) / Badland, Hannah (author) / Davern, Melanie (author) / Aye, Lu (author) / Hes, Dominique (author) / Butterworth, Iain (author) / Giles-Corti, Billie (author)
Urban Policy and Research ; 33 ; 131-144
2015-04-03
14 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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