This presentation looks at the ways in which we can link opportunities to improve our built environment using an understanding of new opportunities relating to health and wellness. New technology, processes, and policy emerging out of health-related research can have huge implications for the future health of our built environment.

1. SEEING OPPORTUNITY
IAN CHODIKOFF MARCH, MAUD, OAA, FRAIC

3. MEXICO CITY

4. MISSISSAUGA

5. WHAT IS A
MAGAZINE?

7. WHAT IS AN
ARCHITECT?

8. SEEING
BEYOND THE
BUILDING

11. UNDERSTANDING
THE CONTEXT

13. SPACE

14. TIME

15. ARCHITECTURE

16. CONNECTIVITY

17. INEQUITY

20. SIMULTANEITY

21. INVISIBILITY

22. COMMUNITY...

24. GLOBAL
COMMUNITY

27. GLOBAL
COMMUNITY

28. GLOBAL
COMMUNITY

32. GLOBAL
COMMUNITY

34. DECEPTIVELY
COMPLEX

41. TRANSFERRING
TERRITORY

47. AVOIDING “ETHNIC”
DESIGN CUES

49. RECOMBINANT
FORMS OF
URBANISM

61. GLOBAL/LOCAL/MULTICULTURAL?
IT’S FUNDAMENTALLY ABOUT
COMMUNITY.

63. UNDERSTANDING
NETWORKS

65. BUILDING
SENEGAL

66. USING ITALY AS A CATALYST

67. FOR REMITTANCES

68. NETWORKS :
INFORMAL AND
TEMPORARY

69. EASY TRANSPORTATION

70. GOOD COMMUNICATION

71. MAKING
MONEY TO
BUILD CITIES

72. UNEMPLOYMENT

73. A NEED FOR HOUSING

74. CHINESE
TO
SENEGALESE

75. ON CONSIGNMENT

76. RIMINI: USED CARS (EXPORTED)

77. DAKAR: USED CARS (IMPORTED)

78. POINTING TO
DEVELOPMENT

79. EVOLUTION OF
COMMERCIAL
DEVELOPMENT

88. EVOLUTION OF
RESIDENTIAL
DEVELOPMENT

102. LANDSCAPE OF SPECULATION

104. SPRAWL

107. LANDSCAPE OF
EXCLUSION

108. TOUBA

113. HIGHER-RISK INVESTMENTS

114. ARE STILL DIFFICULT
FOR MORST
SENEGALESE TO
DEVELOP

115. HEALTH

116. HEALTH

128. health literacy

129. level of activity

135. CHANGING
BEHAVIOUR

138. health
sustainabilitywellbeing
quality
design

139. Initiatives to promote physical activity can have increased effectiveness
when health agencies form partnerships and coordinate efforts with several
other organizations: schools; businesses; policy, advocacy, nutrition,
recreation, planning, and transport agencies; and health-care organizations
Effective public communication and informational approaches promoting physical activity include
community-wide campaigns, mass media campaigns, and decision prompts encouraging the use of
stairs versus lifts and escalators.
Initiatives to increase social support for physical activity within communities, specific neighbourhoods,
and worksites can effectively promote physical activity
Comprehensive school-based strategies encompassing physical education, classroom activities, after-
school sports, and active transport can increase physical activity in young people
Environmental and policy approaches can create or enhance access to places for physical activity with
outreach activities; infrastructural initiatives through urban design of land use and planning at
community and street scales and active transport policy and practices are effective
To properly support initiatives for the promotion of physical activity, workforces need to be trained in
physical activity and health, core public health disciplines, and methods of intersectoral collaboration
Although individuals need to be informed and motivated to adopt physical activity, the public health
priority should be to ensure

140. Community tasks that lead to successful interventions
Sufficient resources to effectively inform, educate, and empower residents to achieve recommended
levels of physical activity where they live, work, and learn
Mobilize intersectoral partnerships to develop effective strategies through informational, social, and
behavioural, and policy and environmental approaches to physical activity promotion
Develop policies and plans for policy implementation and assessment that support individual and
community efforts to promote physical activity and active living
Use evidence-based and promising practice methods for planning and implementation of community-
based physical activity interventions and communication of physical activity messages
Implement innovative new interventions and ensure they are assessed to add to the evidence base
Understand and promote active living principles through national, regional or state, and community
partnerships to organize and support active transport, active sport, and active recreation
Understand and apply key components of evidence-based approaches to assessment
of physical activity promotion
Form partnerships with public health agencies to undertake routine surveillance of physical activity and
inactivity behaviours in community-specific residents, such as specific health, environmental, and
policy correlates
Provide training and capacity building in partnership with other community organizations in use and
adaptation of evidence-based physical activity interventions

144. DETERMINANTS
OF HEALTH

150. INNOVATION

158. What Can Your Address Reveal about
Your Health?
Are There Toxins in Your Home?
Are There Toxic Chemicals in Your
Community?
Is Your Local Water Supply Safe?
Do You Live in a Food Desert?
The Geography of Cancer: Mapping Breast
and Prostate Cancer Patterns
Busy Roads, Air Pollution, and Environmental
Health Risks
Does the Environment Really Matter to Your
Health?

160. Analysis of Air Pollution by the Brno City Municipality

161. Analysis of Air Pollution by the Brno City Municipality

162. Analysis of Air Pollution by the Brno City Municipality

165. Research
-Diagnostics
-Health indicators
-Synthesizing data
-Forecast desired health
outcomes
Policy
-Commitment from all levels of
government
-Develop cross-sectoral
alliances
-Embed strategies within and
across disciplines
-Affordability
-Market Demand
-Sustainable Business Model
-Health Promotion & Protection
Technology Partnerships
-Integrate new technology into the
built environment
-Drive consumer awareness
-Engage in reverse innovation to
find efficiencies
-Facilitate additional support for all
forms of built environment
initiatives
Improving the potential of
existing resources, agency
support, and allied research and
policy experts through better
design.
dialogue between health, business, political and social sectors
3. The Four Areas of Action

166. Research
-Support for Action
-Providing Evidence
-Defining Questions
-Visualizing and
synthesizing data
Policy
-Unlock potential with like-
minded interests
-Broad-based considerations
with business and investor-
friendly interests
-Promotion of financial
incentives
-Build capacity to translate
and utilize knowledge
-Social, economic and
environmental development
potential
-Prioritizing built environment
-Transforming healthcare policies
into policies for better health
-Working with all levels of
government
-Tapping into global policy trends
-Ensuring environmental
sustainability is embedded into
health policies
-Develop sustainable housing
policies
-Recognize Aboriginal, First
Nations and Inuit peoples
Technology
Partnerships
-Integrate innovation with design
-Apply new technology with both
health and non-health sectors
-Proof-of-concept to market
distribution
-Design for affordability
-Engage with the health consumer
-Reverse Innovation
A scenario involving technological innovation achieved through effective
research and partnerships. Technological innovation then influences
policy to make the cycle of innovation seamless and more efficient
3. The Four Areas of Action
A.
B.
C.
D.

167. Strategic Approaches to Urban Health
& Design
Approaches of reducing
chronic illness through
urban planning and
design initiatives
Active
Design
Guidelines
4. Defining the Process of Urban Health & Design
Complete
Streets
Health
Determinants
Social
Capital
Technological
Innovation
Policy
Common approaches
to improving the built
environment are just
two small
components in a
larger-systems
approach when
defining the process
of urban health and
design

168. Urban Health &
Design
Researchers
4. Defining the Process of Urban Health & Design
PolicymakersProgressive
Urban
Planning &
Design
Principles
Technology
SectorHealth Sector
Financial
Sector

169. 4. Defining the Process of Urban Health & Design
Moving away from being dependent upon healthcare
as a model for health to a more multi-sectoral model
Health
Urban Planning &
Design Principles
Environment
Lifestyle
Natural Sciences &
Scientific Research
Healthcare