Enabling Healthy Placemaking - RTPI
This research explores local, national and international planning practices enabling the creation and delivery of healthy places.
Recent studies have identified important challenges faced by planners who try to integrate healthy placemaking principles in their decisions. Although the barriers to building healthy places are now well-known (e.g. lack of funding; different requirements from developers; conflicting policy priorities) very few studies have given due attention to the solutions devised by planners to overcome these barriers and to create places that integrate healthy principles (that are so integral to people’s lives) into the built environment.
The report will be of interest to Planners, Policy-makers, Public Health Professionals, Academics and anyone interested in place based approaches to health.