Healthy City

The COVID-19 has aroused world-wide awareness and discussions on healthy city creation. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines a healthy city “is one that is continually creating and improving those physical and social environments and expanding those community resources which enable people to mutually support each other in performing all the functions of life and developing to their maximum potential.”

 

Building Tomorrow

On top of WHO's definition, let's have a listen to this Harvard Professor's views of "What is a Healthy City?", and different ways to create a healthy city from this video.

Ann Forsyth spoke at Taubman College as part of the 2018-2019 Lecture Series. Ann Forsyth is a Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Masters in Urb...


What Cities Can Learn from the Coronavirus Pandemic?

From the next motivational speech, the speaker Dr. Yu-Min Joo shares her observations on the behaviours and responses of cities around the world to COVID-19 in "What Cities Can Learn from the Coronavirus Pandemic?"

Yu-Min Joo is an Associate Professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management (KDIS) in South Korea. Prior to joining KDIS, she taught at the Lee Ku...


Designing "healthy cities" becoming more important amid COVID-19 pandemic

In the next video - "Designing 'healthy cities' becoming more important amid COVID-19 pandemic", Professor Lam Khee Poh of National University of Singapore gives us a few good reminders of the essential components that composes a healthy city.

As COVID-19 sweeps across the globe, designing healthy cities is increasingly more important. Experts have said it is more than just healthcare - social and ...