Benchmarking, monitoring, modelling and valuing the healthy liveable city
This final project report describes the results of the project ‘Benchmarking, Monitoring, Modelling and Valuing the Healthy Liveable City’, the third project in the National Liveability Study series funded by the Prevention Centre. It sought to go beyond ‘why’ we should make the transition to healthy liveable cities, and ‘which’ interventions were likely to support this transition, to ‘how’ to design policy and interventions to create healthy liveable cities.
Although there is substantial evidence on why we should make the transition to healthy liveable cities, and which urban planning and transport interventions are needed, there is insufficient evidence on how interventions could and should be implemented to make this transition, and the likely consequences of those interventions.
This project extended our team’s previous liveability work by creating a national database of evidence-based liveability indicators, visualised and disseminated through the Australian Urban Observatory – a ‘virtual laboratory’ that can be used to identify and test urban and transport planning and design interventions.
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Research seminar: Creating healthy liveable cities: The journey of a research program
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Determining thresholds for spatial urban design and transport features that support walking to create healthy and sustainable cities: Findings from the IPEN Adult study
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City planning policies to support health and sustainability: An international comparison of policy indicators for 25 cities
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Creating liveable cities in Australia: A scorecard and priority recommendations for Melbourne, Sydney and Western Australia
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Taking liveability goals global
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Australian cities among the worst performing on walkability and public transport access
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Liveable cities research has real impact on health and equity
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