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Healthy cities and healthy urban design

Drevland, Ingvill S.
Master thesis
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2016
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Abstract
As an occupational therapist, I have always found the interaction between humans, their

environment and their activities interesting, and how the environment can influence what we

do and our occupational patterns is something that fascinates me. As my interest for urban

health and healthy cities has grown during this master program, I have chosen to use the

experience and knowledge I have from my field of expertise and put it in the context of

healthy urban planning. This master’s thesis therefore consists of two articles focusing on

urban health and healthy urban planning. The first article is a review of how the environment

can influence health and well-being of urban dwellers. The second article is based on the

results from the first article, and is a qualitative study focusing on what creates health in the

urban environment, and how this is related to the actual urban design.

Article Ι: Today a great amount of the world population lives in urban areas. As health

essentially is created outside the health sector, the urban environment becomes an important

determinant of health. Thus, it becomes important not only to understand how to develop

healthy urban environments, but also to understand what this entails. This review article

therefore aims to explore how the built environment can influence the health and well-being

of urban dwellers, and what this means for health promoting measures in the urban

environment. The built environment appears to affect health and well-being of urban dwellers

on both the individual and community level. However, in the process of developing healthy

urban environments or health promoting measures in the urban environment, it is important to

understand the different environmental dimensions.

Article ΙΙ: With the rapid urbanization around the world, it is argued that the urban

environment is an important arena for health promotion. The main aim in this study is to

identify what creates health in an urban environment and how this is related to the actual

urban design. This is a phenomenological study that includes in-depth interviews with three

men and five women aged 23-65. Systematic text condensation was used to analyze the

material and three categories were identified as health promoting factors of urban life: (1)

Accessibility, (2) Variation and (3) Flexible social arenas. The study shows how the three

categories are related to the actual urban design and how they can affect health and well-being

of urban dwellers. It is also argued that these three categories are connected to each other and

as a whole might facilitate healthy urban environments, and thus healthy urban dwellers.
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