Health creation in the form of interventions that positively improve health and wellbeing should be the determining factor for built environment, planning and placemaking policies. That’s according to Prof Rachel Cooper OBE, who opened the second day of the Healthy City Design 2022 Congress with a keynote talk on ‘what creates healthy cities’.
The revenge of the suburbs, solving the urban paradox, and taking control by getting up and doing things. These were just a handful of the many insights and paradigms on ‘designing a new world’ that the three eminent keynote speakers shared with delegates during the opening session of the second day of the 4th Healthy City Design Congress.
“Everyone’s got something to learn and everyone’s got something to teach” is one of the mantras of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and it aligns closely with the philosophy behind Lord Nigel Crisp’s latest book, Turning the World Upside Down Again – an updated version, with a slightly amended title, of his 2009 publication.
