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Tools to Promote Physical, Mental and Social Well-Being in the Built Environment-Takeaways from the Development Project ‘the Urban Health Culture of the Future’

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Design for Health (UIA 2023)

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Abstract

In 2019, Juul Frost Architects launched the interdisciplinary development project ‘The Urban Health Culture of the Future’, supported by Realdania with the aim to secure the link between health and planning. The project has resulted in the publication ‘The Urban Health Culture of the Future’ that features an analytical tool, four cases, contributions from the think tank, urban theories, and a toolbox, that we hope will inspire new strategic and multidisciplinary partnerships between local health and planning factors. The following paper presents excerpt or takeaways from the project, more specifically, from the tools developed. The aim of the tool is to ensure that considerations of health and well-being are explicitly reflected in planning. Thus, the tools can be used to promote the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, more specific Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, and Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    According to WHO’s definition of health.

  2. 2.

    The members of the think tank and the two municipalities have continuously contributed with their experience and knowledge to the project. The think tank has been composed of complementary disciplines and chosen to ensure knowledge in the focus areas of the project. The members are: Bodil V. Henningsen, architect, Master in Strategic Planning, Aalborg Municipality, Urban Development and Construction; Christer Larsson, Architect SAR/MSA, KKH, former director of Urban Planning, Adjunct Professor of Architecture; Jasper Schipperijn, Professor, PhD, MSc, Department of Sport Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark; Jesper Lund Bredesen, doctor, divisional director H. Lundbeck A/S; John Pløger, Professor Emeritus, University of Agder; Karin K. Peschardt, landscape architect, PhD Strategic Planner, Holbæk Municipality, Planning and Business; Katrine Winther, anthropologist, Head of Social Initiatives AKB Taastrupgaard; Morten Klöcker Grønbæk, professor, PhD, D.M.Sc. Director of the National Institute of Public Health, SDU; Peter Hanke, chairman, Associate Fellow at Oxford University, Saïd Business School; and Rasmus B. Andersen, architect, team leader, Urban Development and Facilities, DGI.

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    See: Presentation for Green Norm 2.0, methods and tools for more and better urban nature, https://thegreencities.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Gron-Norm-2.0.pdf.

  4. 4.

    See e.g. Stefano Boeri Architetti’s Urban Forestry manifesto for inspiration.

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    Helle Juul

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  2. MASS Design Group, Kigali, Rwanda

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  3. CITA—Centre for Information Technology and Architecture, The Royal Danish Academy—Architecture, Design, Conservation, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Juul, H. (2023). Tools to Promote Physical, Mental and Social Well-Being in the Built Environment-Takeaways from the Development Project ‘the Urban Health Culture of the Future’. In: Hasan, A., Benimana, C., Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Tamke, M. (eds) Design for Health. UIA 2023. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36316-0_21

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