Melanie Lowe

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify eight integrated regional and local interventions that, when combined, encourage walking, cycling, and public transport use, while reducing private motor vehicle use, and recommend establishing a set of indicators to benchmark and monitor progress towards achievement of more compact cities that promote health and reduce health inequities.

TL;DR: There is a substantial opportunity to further develop these measures to create a series of robust and evidence-based liveability indices, which could be linked with existing health and wellbeing data to better inform urban planning policies within Australia and beyond.

TL;DR: This work proposes 10 strategies that may facilitate translation of research into health-enhancing urban planning policy and includes interdisciplinary research teams of policymakers and practitioners, and adopting dissemination strategies that include knowledge brokers, advocates, and lobbyists.

TL;DR: An overview of liveability indicators used to date in Australia and internationally is provided and the results of consultations with Melbourne-based academics and decision-makers are outlined on how to increase their utility and support the creation of healthy, liveable and sustainable cities.

TL;DR: The extent to which the UN indicators will help cities evaluate their efforts to deliver sustainability and health outcomes is examined and inconsistencies between the two UN indicator frameworks are identified.