New Report: Place & Health

30th June 2021

The urban Health Council research team are delighted to release its latest report titled ‘Place & Health’.

This report will focus primarily on the role of the built environment as a determinant of health, framing the professionals within the sector as healthcare workers because practitioners have a significant influence on the ability of citizens to build healthy relationships between health and place.

As a neuroscience lab our focus and perspective will be from a biological and health lense. Even when practitioners have the right intentions, the initiatives proposed, such as planting trees and creating low traffic neighbourhoods, are rarely determined by the actual environmental or psychosocial quality of the location and thus do not solve fundamental problems or give citizens agency.

Upgrading cities from merely places of commerce to habitats that can support human health will require a biological approach.