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The Healthy Cities Generator

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12 July 2022
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There’s plenty of scientific evidence showing how urban design affects health – despite this, health and planning are too rarely considered in tandem. The Healthy City Generator bridges the gap between ´what we know´ and ´what we do´, making it easy for urban planners and policy makers to incorporate health factors into urban planning and urban factors into health policy.

Until now, if a planner wanted to centre health, they needed to choose between applying a complex, intensive framework, or selecting simple tools that only touch on a single driver of health.

We need to make the process simple, while integrating all aspects of health into all stages of planning. With our practical, interactive tool, users can quickly assess the health impact of their whole plan, and see how small adjustments could make a big difference to the lives of local people.

The Healthy Cities Generator is a hands-on, practical planning tool designed to give actionable indicators for anyone looking to integrate health into planning:

Based on a systematic review of scientific peer-reviewed publications linking urban determinants and their impact on health, the tool automatically calculates the health impact of urban planning actions. Combining these science driven insights with a lean, easy to use interactive interface, the tool provides unique support to decision makers, planners and citizens and health professionals.

From the planning perspective, the user can easily enter their own planning actions and immediately visualise the specific health effects of changes to density, mobility, mixed uses, landscape, and housing. The results paint a clear picture of how your plan affects health.

For health, the tool includes an assessment to help citizens and practitioners understand their areas strengths and weaknesses, and guides the user to the urban planning & social actions that will improve their health results.

learn more and try the tool: www.healthycitiesgenerator.com

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