Guide to planning healthy cities
2022
Link to the resource: https://recs.es/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/guide_to_planning_HealthyCities-1.pdf
- Format:
- Guide
- Target population:
- Local administrations, citizens' associations and the general public
- Objetive:
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The guide makes possible to make a diagnosis from the health of the people in a neighborhood or residential area to formulate a Health Action Plan, which has a double objective: to prevent health with less polluted urban environments and to promote a more active lifestyle of people
- Methodology:
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This objective is achieved thanks to the proposal of three complementary lines of analysis/actions:
- cities for walking,
- neighborhoods greening and
- promoting spaces for intergenerational social relations.
In each of these lines, the guide proposes a series of questions (74 in total) to help to know the weaknesses and prioritize the most urgent actions
- Opportunities and limitations:
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The great strength of the Guide is its simple, and direct proposal that can be carried out by a multitude of agents, entities, neighbors, local administration technicians or experts.
The limitation is found in the need for a management-financial body that translates these ideas into plans for the renovation of public space from the perspective of people's health
- Indicators:
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74 questions that determine the analysis from the health of a residential neighborhood
- Thematic:
- Public space
- Link to health:
- Physical Mental Social
- Scale of the field of study:
- Housing / street / building / bounded public space
- Implementation phase:
- Diagnosis / pre-project
- Methodological approach:
- Observation Qualitative / Participatory Questionnaire
