1st Edition

Designing Healthy and Liveable Cities Creating Sustainable Urban Regeneration

By Marichela Sepe Copyright 2023
272 Pages 118 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 118 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 118 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In the last ten years, concepts such as urban health and liveability have become ever more present in urban planning studies. Many companies rank the most liveable city in the world or in a nation, and many indicators are used to try to measure factors which can report the health of a place by investigating it in different ways. While it is possible to understand why a place is liveable – due to... Read more

INTRODUCTION

PART I

Sustainable Urban Regeneration

1 Holistic Approach

2 Resilience and Adaptation

3 Healthy Urban Places

4 Mixed Connections

5 Indicators

PART II

Mapping Healthy and Liveable Places

6 15-Minute City

7 Flexible City

8 Soft City

9 Smart City

PART III

The Healthy Pl@ce Design Method

10 Analysis

11 Design

12 Healthy Pl@ce App

13 Indices

14 Observation

PART IV

Case Studies

15 Bordeaux

16 Copenhagen

17 Dublin

18 Hamburg

19 Madrid

20 Newcastle-Gateshead

21 Nice

22 Vancouver

23 Wuhan

Conclusion: Principles of Urban Health and Liveability Design

REFERENCES

Biography

Marichela Sepe is a researcher with the Institute for Studies on the Mediterranean of the Italian National Research Council in Naples, Italy. She joined the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples Federico II in 2003, where she serves as a contract professor of urban planning. Sepe is on the Steering Committee of the Italian Institute of Urban Planning and European Urban Research Association and is a member of the International Committee for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites, and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement and of the Urban Design Group.