The Health Dimension of Urban Design

Document Type : مقاله کوتاه

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PhD Candidate, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University

Abstract

The growing awareness on the impact of man-made environments on human health and welfare has drawn attention to planning measures which contribute to creating a healthy environment. This paper first reviews the health and environment concepts based on medical and planning theories, respectively. Then the Sustainable Place Model is used as a conceptual basis for determining those functional, physical, cognitive and ecological features, which affect diverse health dimensions. Accordingly, a causation diagram is developed to include urban feature and health dimensions. It is shown that in addition to conventional socioeconomic dimensions, health has a spatial dimension, while planning also has a health dimension.

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  • Receive Date: 13 May 2015
  • Revise Date: 06 February 2021
  • Accept Date: 31 December 2020

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