Sustainable Development Goals

The modern compact city is identified as a high-density and mixed-use pattern. Its features are believed to contribute to a form of functional urban design that supports sustainability and, restresses, the importance of ecosystem services. Urban green space (UGS) plays a vital role in the design and impact on how compact cities have developed and triggered a scientific discord on the amount of greenery individuals require and to what extent contemporary approaches address the question. Research points to at least 9 m2 of green space per individual with an ideal UGS value of 50 m2 per capita. An examination on the perception, use, quality, accessibility and health risks of urban green and blue spaces is explored, alongside the availability of novel UGS and greenery-related approaches that investigate compact city design and planning for health and wellbeing. The amount of ‘green’ and relating UGS availability in cities indicates vital knowledge modern compact cities must consider.

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/10/2180/pdf

Modern Compact Cities: How Much Greenery Do We Need?

https://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/file_store/production/255406/9A615C96-054C-44A7-B1FA-9165609A196B.pdf

Urban planning as an enabler of urban health: Challenges and good practice in England following the 2012 planning and public health reforms

Growing recognition has developed between policy-makers and practitioners that green infrastructure (GI) provides an approach to planning for effectively integrating ecosystems, biodiversity, socio...

Progressing Green Infrastructure planning: understanding its scalar, temporal, geo-spatial and disciplinary evolution

This paper explores how health aspects connected with the planning of urban green space are currently supported through two types of impact assessments: health impact assessment (HIA) and environme...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14615517.2017.1364021

Peter Fawcett

Papers

Consideration of urban green space in impact assessments for health

The role of impact assessments (HIA, EIA and SEA) in urban green space interventions for health