The concept of “Health in All Policies” that came up a few years ago, during the Finnish Presidency of the European Union (2006), has increased the study of city form and urban design as important elements to build healthy communities. In that sense, grows the knowledge about the relevance of life style patterns for public health, promoting global changes in the urban environment and on the way we manage our cities.
In this ongoing research, the intention is to prove, trough the analysis of international case studies, which are the good practices, in design and urban planning, according to their influence in the local communities health. It’s therefore an operational purpose, to present some contribution on how city form can improve our common future.
The state of the art shows that the urban models of unlimited growth and the cities without human concerns or cultural approaches became unpleased places, with major impacts in environment and all kind of diseases. Part of those problems can be related to the practice of “zoning plans”, which separate urban functions, with great distances between residential areas, affecting the health of the commuters in their daily movements.
On other hand, the medium densities, traditional urban forms and more compacts cities are usually presented as better ways to develop the health of the community, with also remarkable benefits on environment, social integration and local economy. In the European context, three of these better examples are the “New Poundbury” neighborhood in Dorchester (UK), the German city of Freiburg and the regeneration of Plessis Robinson, near Paris, recognized by organizations like the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community, the Council for European Urbanism and the Fondation Philippe Rotthier pour l’Architecture.
Resumo de comunicação aceite no ISUF 2014, por Rui Florentino e José Baganha
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