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{"title":"Spatial and policy analysis of livability in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, USA.","authors":"Ana Luiza Favarão Leão, Milena Franco Silva, Raúl D Gierbolini-Rivera, Courtney Shaw, Áine O'Connor, Eugen Resendiz B, Melanie Lowe, Deborah Salvo, Rodrigo Siqueira Reis","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2025.2526258","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23748834.2025.2526258","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A livable city ensures safety, health, inclusivity, sustainability, housing, mobility, and opportunities for all. The Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities (GOHSC) launched the 1000 Cities Challenge to assess urban health and sustainability globally. This study uses the GOHSC's spatial and policy indicators to evaluate livability in St. Louis, Missouri. Using a mixed-methods approach, we analyzed the spatial distribution of built environment and transport features alongside planning and sustainability policies. Spatial indicators were derived from open data. Policy documents were coded for their governance level, alignment with evidence from healthy cities, and inclusion of measurable targets. Most residents (91.7%) lived in neighborhoods with optimal street intersection density (100 intersections/km²). However, only 2.8% lived in areas with optimal population density (5,700 people/km²). Just 26.3% lived near public transit, and 44.5% had access to large public open spaces below the GOHSC city averages (44.6% and 66%). While there was good coverage of policies, policy quality was low (31%), with most lacking measurable targets. The policy and spatial indicators enabled a comprehensive evaluation of livability. Future research should synthesize local and regional policies, supplement livability indicators with measures of environmental (in)justice within cities and utilize streetscape micro-scale data to deepen livability analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12395329/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144980930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The symbolic meanings and experience of place among residents in public housing awaiting relocation in Baltimore, Maryland.","authors":"Jessie Chien, Ashley Q Truong, Abigail Pollock, Ernestine Chambers, Anita Donaldson, Subira Brown, Haneefa T Saleem, Sabriya L Linton","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2025.2451544","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23748834.2025.2451544","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Public housing in the United States is often depicted as areas of decay and using racialized tropes about low-income communities of color. Despite these negative portrayals, residents of public housing often characterize their place as meaningful homes where they engage in place-making and community-building to challenge their social marginalization. The presence of strong connections to community and place among residents may help explain why public housing redevelopment programs focused on demolition and forced relocation have led to mixed results for improved mental and social well-being. This study explores how residents of a predominately Black public housing community undergoing redevelopment construct meanings of place and how these meanings influence their well-being and perceptions of redevelopment. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 29 adults relocating from a public housing site in Baltimore, Maryland and showcased how the social conditions of public housing intersect with individual characteristics, life experiences, and personal desires to dictate residents' notions of home, attachments to place and community, and experiences with stigma before relocation. Our findings demonstrate how residents' experiences with redevelopment and relocating can vary depending on their meanings of place, emphasizing the need to elevate residents' experiential knowledge in housing interventions to promote individual and community health.</p>","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"9 2","pages":"248-263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12334184/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144818421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Green infrastructure and community health: exploring the characteristics of campus users in three university towns in Texas.","authors":"Ryun Jung Lee, Zhicheng Xu, Galen Newman, Chanam Lee, Yang Song, Wonmin Sohn, Dongying Li, Yizhen Ding","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2024.2381966","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23748834.2024.2381966","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Green infrastructure in college campuses and their surrounding communities can bring public health benefits. Using green infrastructure measures in three university towns in Texas, United States, this study explores if and how green infrastructure can impact the physical and mental health status of university campus users in the community. Campus users were estimated as the number of visitors to campus using the SafeGraph mobility data, green infrastructure was measured with land cover and Landsat 8 satellite images, and health status was measured with the CDC health status data. The results of spatial error models suggest a significant moderating effect of tree canopy coverage indicating that green infrastructure could potentially benefit campus users' health. This gives indirect evidence supporting the health-significant roles of the campus environment. For city planners and policymakers, increasing tree canopy coverage stands out as a promising green infrastructure planning and management strategy that can contribute to the health of campus users/communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12266687/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144661148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is your city planned for all citizens as they age? Selecting the indicators to measure neighbourhoods’ age-friendliness in the urban planning field","authors":"Silvia Urra-Uriarte, Patricia Molina-Costa, Unai Martin, Uyen Nhu Tram, Juanita Devis Clavijo","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2023.2270686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2270686","url":null,"abstract":"In many countries, urban population ageing trends are a recognized policy issue that requires a multidisciplinary approach. Although some fields, such as urban planning, encounter challenges in incorporating age-friendliness, they are crucial in enhancing the quality of life and well-being of all urban inhabitants. Additionally, they should provide solutions on how cities can cater to the needs of a population that is living longer than ever before. To accomplish this, older people’s needs can be translated into multidomain indicators to be adopted when planning the cities. Using the World Health Organization’s age-friendly cities indicators framework as a basis, the objective of this research is to establish a new indicators framework for urban planners and policymakers. With this aim, within the H2020 URBANAGE project, various cities have followed a process to adapt the WHO´s general framework to their specific needs and interests, through research, iteration with the cities and co-creation methodologies with older people and civil servants. This process has resulted in the definition of an indicators framework, which aims to evaluate the age-friendliness of various neighbourhoods within a city. It also intends to inform the development of decision-support technologies to achieve age-friendly cities in the different cities involved.","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"82 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136346440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency","authors":"Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Gregory E. Erhabor, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Paul Yonga, Chris Zielinski","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2023.2276427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2276427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"14 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135818782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Research for city practice","authors":"Marcus Grant","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2023.2262202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2262202","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence supports what we all intuitively know; that human health and planetary health are heavily influenced by the urban environments we create. Outcomes for human and planetary health show worrying trends of ongoing and increasing risks. These are of global concern, so It is imperative that we use urban policy, programmes and projects to test for potential solutions. This requires concerted action. Cities & Health is dedicated to supporting a multidirectional flow of knowledge to support such action. Our aim is to foster connections and conversations between researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, communities, and decision-makers in cities. That is the specific purpose of this section of the journal, with its short ‘City Know-how’ policy briefings derived from research findings. The team at Cities & Health, and our two knowledge partners (International Society for Urban Health and SALUS.Global), invite you to join their networks, and to contribute to the dialogue. We encourage communities, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers to consider publishing in Cities & Health to help influence urban policy.","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135617228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining discrimination in home improvement financing (Home Mortgage Disclosure Act 2012–2016) and neighborhood health in the United States","authors":"Brigette A. Davis, Mariana C. Arcaya, David R. Williams, Molly Metzger, Nancy Krieger","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2023.2260188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2260188","url":null,"abstract":"Institutional racism by financial institutions historically denied Black homeowners access to home mortgage loans. An understudied aspect of the homeownership continuum is home repair and maintenance, with few studies assessing discrimination in access to funding for home improvement. Using US Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data between 2012 and 2016, we assess individual and census-tract level predictors of applying to, and being denied home improvement loans. We find non-Hispanic Black applicants are significantly more likely to be denied loans (OR: 2.28 p < 0.01), and that loans for areas with a high proportion of non-Hispanic Black residents (OR: 1.09, p < 0.01) are most likely to be denied, while applications in tracts with the highest proportion of non-Hispanic white residents (OR: 0.90, p < 0.01) are least likely to be denied. We find that white (r = 0.203), but not Black (r = 0.02) home improvement applications are correlated with the proportion of Black residents currently residing in the census tract. Additionally, at the census tract level, home improvement loan denial rates are associated with usually getting less than 7 hours of sleep, which is associated with adverse health outcomes. Future research on institutional racism should consider the social and health impacts of discrimination in home improvement loan financing for Black applicants and within Black communities.","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135569743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The practices of urban health equity: a call for greater humility","authors":"Jason Corburn, Marcus Grant, Smruti Jukur, Francisco Obando","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2023.2262306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2262306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"44 25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135617385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards climate change resilience and informal workers’ health in Zimbabwe: an action-research case study","authors":"Artwell Kadungure, Rangarirai Machemedze, Wisborn Malaya, Nathan Banda, Rene Loewenson, Alice Sverdlik","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2023.2261755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2261755","url":null,"abstract":"Despite rising concern for climate change in cities, urban informal workers are rarely considered in climate and health interventions. Globally, about two billion people work in the ‘informal economy,’ which encompasses all livelihoods lacking legal recognition or social protections. To encourage more holistic studies of workers’ health in urban areas, we discuss recent action-research in Zimbabwe’s cities of Harare (population 2.4m) and Masvingo (urban population 207,000). Using surveys (N=418) and focus group discussions (N=207) with informal urban agriculture workers and plastic waste-pickers, we analysed their climate-related, occupational, and environmental health risks. Approximately 55% of waste-pickers and urban agriculture workers reported that heat extremes already shortened their working times and lowered incomes. We highlight the close links between living and working conditions; discuss gendered differences in risks; and examine how heatwaves, water scarcity, and floods are affecting informal workers. In Masvingo, local authorities have begun collaborating with informal workers to tackle these risks. We recommend multi-sectoral, co-produced strategies that can simultaneously promote health and resilient livelihoods. Although climate change could further entrench urban inequalities, there may also be unusual opportunities to spark action on climate change by using a health lens to improve livelihoods and foster more inclusive, resilient urbanisation pathways.","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135569597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Systems thinking guides a community building journey in Malaysian public housing","authors":"Uta Dietrich, Aishwariya Krishna Kumar, Shahridan Faiez","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2023.2260054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2260054","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTMalaysia’s urban poor have been successfully rehoused in high-rise buildings during the country’s rapid development. However, quality of life and livelihoods in these complexes are deteriorating, widening inequalities. Considering housing as a complex system, this case study designed an iterative place-based community-building initiative with residents, covering multiple dimensions. The COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbated residents’ vulnerabilities, from job losses to food security. In turn, the programme restructured to meet residents’ emerging needs, adjusting existing plans. Surprisingly, pandemic-related programme changes also had positive outcomes. We share insights for methodology, implementation, scalability, policy implications, evaluation, and funding from a praxis perspective.KEYWORDS: Public housinghealth inequitiesMalaysia NoteThink City Sdn Bhd is an impact organisation seeking to make cities more liveable, environmentally and socially resilient and sustainable. From neighbourhood to national scale, Think City designs and delivers programmes around housing, safety, climate change, urban data to culture-based urban regeneration and heritage conservation via its co-investment and partnership approach (www.thinkcity.com.my).AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the extensive network of partners who made this programme possible. This includes the community at PPR Kg Baru Hicom for driving the programme with their creativity and commitment; key collaborators such as PERWACOM as critical facilitators, PHSSB, MBI and other authorities for providing the necessary support and guidance; and all other partners for K2K and Rights To The City (R2C).Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).GeolocationThe geographical location mentioned in this paper is Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.Additional informationFundingThe work was supported by the Citi Foundation via CAF America [ID#G-ISC-20207598]; CIMB Bank; PNSB Construction Sdn Bhd.Notes on contributorsUta DietrichUta Dietrich is passionate about urban health, balancing the health of people, city and planet. Her career in Australia, Asia and now Europe has spanned practice, policy, education and research. Over the past 10 years she has applied a human development lens to urban rejuvenation with specific focus on vulnerable communities, public housing and climate & health as Director Social Resilience at Think City in Kuala Lumpur. Most recently Uta has joined the Centre of Expertise – Perspective in Health at Avans University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.Aishwariya Krishna KumarAishwariya Krishna Kumar has a varied background, with stints in refugee agencies, investments, and urban regeneration, complemented by an education in Economics and Political Science. She has spent 6 years working on urban resilience in Kuala Lumpur, understanding women’s safety, homelessness, and public housing. She enjoys gaining in-depth knowledge on d","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135591587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}