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

In this end-of-project seminar, the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab team describe how they sought to go beyond why we should transition to healthy liveable cities and what interventions were likely to support this transition, to how to design policy and interventions to achieve healthy liveable cities.

In the last decade, there has been growing interest locally, nationally and globally in the creation of liveable and sustainable cities. Defined through a public health lens, liveable cities are ‘safe, socially cohesive and inclusive and environmentally sustainable, with affordable housing linked by convenient public transport and walking and cycling infrastructure to employment, education, health and community services and leisure and cultural opportunities’. Liveable cities, therefore, have the potential for co-benefits by enhancing population health, the economy, social inclusion, environmental and social sustainability, and reducing inequities.

This project extended the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab team’s previous liveability work by creating a national database of evidence-based liveability indicators visualised and disseminated through the Australian Urban Observatory and a ‘virtual laboratory’ that could be used to identify, test and assess the health benefits of urban and transport planning and design interventions. 

This project is the third in the National Liveability Study series funded by The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.

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  • Benchmarking, monitoring, modelling and valuing the healthy liveable city

    Resource category: Reports Reports
    Date 12 Aug 2022
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DATE 14 Jul 2022

TYPE Videos

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  • Distinguished Professor Billie Giles-Corti

    RMIT University
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  • Dr Lucy Gunn

    RMIT University
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  • Carl Higgs

    RMIT University
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  • Dr Alan Both

    RMIT University
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  • Associate Professor Dhirendra Singh

    RMIT University
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  • Dr Afshin Jafari

    RMIT University
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  • Mahsa Abdollahyar

    RMIT University
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  • Steve Pemberton

    RMIT University
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  • Making the case for prevention ,
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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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