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Benchmarking, monitoring, modelling and valuing the healthy liveable city

Moving beyond the 'why' we should transition to healthy cities to 'how' we design policy and interventions for healthy, liveable cities.
  • Benchmarking, monitoring, modelling and valuing the healthy liveable city

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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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Associated content

  • Research seminar: Creating healthy liveable cities: The journey of a research program 

    Resource category: Videos Videos
    Date 14 Jul 2022
  • 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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    Publications Publications
    Date 04 Jun 2022
  • City planning policies to support health and sustainability: An international comparison of policy indicators for 25 cities

    Type
    Publications Publications
    Date 04 Jun 2022
  • Creating liveable cities in Australia: A scorecard and priority recommendations for Melbourne, Sydney and Western Australia

    Resource category: Reports Reports
    Date 27 Sep 2018
  • Taking liveability goals global

    News Category: Prevention Centre News
    Date 17 May 2022
    Sydney Opera House at sunset
  • Australian cities among the worst performing on walkability and public transport access

    News Category: Media coverage
    Date 11 May 2022
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  • Liveable cities research has real impact on health and equity

    News Category: Prevention Centre News
    Date 08 Oct 2019
    The City of Melbourne with lots of greenery in the foreground
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DATE 12 Aug 2022

TYPE Reports

Prevention experts

  • Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti

    RMIT University
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  • Dr Lucy Gunn

    RMIT University
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Topics

  • Liveability ,
  • Mental health and wellbeing ,

Prevention methodologies

  • Making the case for prevention ,
  • Prevention in the health sector ,

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  • The importance of healthy liveable cities

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    Resource category: Findings Brief Findings Brief
    Date 08 Jun 2017
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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.

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The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre is funded by the NHMRC, Australian Government Department of Health, ACT Health, Cancer Council Australia, NSW Ministry of Health, Wellbeing SA, Tasmanian Department of Health, and VicHealth. The Australian Government also contributed through the Medical Research Future Fund. Queensland Health became a financial contributor in 2022. The Prevention Centre is administered by the Sax Institute.

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