Making post-war urban neighbourhoods healthier

Title

Making post-war urban neighbourhoods healthier: involving residents’ perspectives in selecting locations for health promoting urban redesign interventions

 Author

Reijneveld, Sijmen A. (University Medical Center Groningen)
Koene, Marijke (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Tuinstra, Jolanda (University Medical Center Groningen)
van der Spek, S.C. (TU Delft Urban Design) ORCID 0000-0003-1258-0527
Broekhuis, Manda (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Wagenaar, C. (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

Date

2023

 Abstract

Post-war urban neighbourhoods in industrialised countries have been shown to negatively affect the lifestyles of their residents due to their design. This study aims at developing an empirical procedure to select locations to be redesigned and the determinants of health at stake in these locations, with involvement of residents’ perspectives as core issue. We addressed a post-war neighbourhood in the city of Groningen, the Netherlands. We collected data from three perspectives: spatial analyses by urban designers, interviews with experts in local health and social care (n = 11) and online questionnaires filled in by residents (n = 99). These data provided input for the selection of locations to be redesigned by a multidisciplinary team (n = 16). The procedure yielded the following types of locations (and determinants): An area adjacent to a central shopping mall (social interaction, traffic safety, physical activity), a park (experiencing green, physical activity, social safety, social interaction) and a block of low-rise row houses around a public square (social safety, social interaction, traffic safety). We developed an empirical procedure for the selection of locations and determinants to be addressed, with addressing residents’ perspectives. This procedure is potentially applicable to similar neighbourhoods internationally.


 Subject

intervention
Netherlands
post-war neighbourhood
urban design
Urban health

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 DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2197165

 ISSN

2374-8834

 Source

Cities & Health, 1-9

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

journal article

 Rights

© 2023 Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Marijke Koene, Jolanda Tuinstra, S.C. van der Spek, Manda Broekhuis, C. Wagenaar
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