Healthy Urban Environment and Design
Priorities
Healthy Urban Planning: Integrating health
considerations into urban planning processes, programmes and
projects and establishing the necessary capacity and political and
institutional commitment to achieve this goal. Especially
emphasising master planning, transport accessibility and
neighbourhood planning.
Housing and Regeneration: Increasing access
through planning and design to integrated transport systems, better
housing for all, health-enhancing regeneration schemes and
accessibility to green and open spaces for recreation and physical
activity.
Healthy Transport: Promoting accessibility, by
facilitating the ability for everyone, including very young people
and people with limited mobility, to reach their required
destination without having to use a car.
Climate change and Public Health Emergencies:
Tackling the health implications of climate change in cities and
being vigilant about global changes such as the impact of
globalised economies, the free movement of people and preparedness
for and response to public health emergencies.
Safety and Security: Ensuring that the
planning and design of cities and neighbourhoods allow social
interaction, increases a sense of safely and security and supports
easy mobility for everyone, especially young and older people.
Exposure to Noise and Pollution: Promoting and
adopting practices that protect people, especially children, from
toxic and health-damaging exposure, including indoor and outdoor
air pollution, tobacco smoke in workplaces and public places and
noise.
Healthy Urban Design: Creating socially
supportive environments and an environment that encourages walking
and cycling. Enhancing cities' distinctive and multifaceted
cultural assets in urban design and promoting urban designs that
meet all citizens' expectations for safety, accessibility, comfort
and active living.
Creativity and Liveability: Promoting policies
and cultural activities that encourage creativity and contribute to
thriving communities by developing human and social capital,
improving social cohesion and activating social change.