Cities & Health – Congress Special Issues

The current Congress Issue of Cities & Health ‘Urban renewal and health equity through resilience and regeneration’ was conceived in the light of the Healthy City Design 2023 International Congress, which took place in Liverpool on 16-17 October 2023.

The annual Congress on creating healthy urban futures once again brought urban designers and planners, public health professionals, academics, developers, investors, community voices and policymakers together to discuss the latest interdisciplinary ideas, trends and impacts in this field.

The 2023 Congress Issue contains event reviews from both the 2022 and 2023 Congresses plus research articles and case studies. As with every issue of Cities & Health it contains a policy briefing from every research article in a handy paper called ‘Research for city practice’. Cities & Health is proud to announce that it also includes three articles arising from the work of the World Health Organization and Dr Nathalie Laure Roebbel’s urban health unit, which are all free to access (see below for a full list).

2024 Special Issue

If you presented at the Healthy City Design International Congress 2024 and are still interested in being considered for publication in the 2024 Congress Issue ‘Building a fairer future: Advancing health equity’, please see the Call for Contributions for further details. The deadline is on 13 December 2024, however team can be flexible on timing – please let Sem Lee know if you have work to submit but may be unable to meet the deadline.

The editorial team for this Congress Issue comprises:

Lead Guest Editor: Sem Lee, Ouri Labs hello@ouri-labs.com
Editorial Team: Josh Artus, Centric Lab, UK
Emily Nix, Bradford Institute for Health Research, UK
Special advisors: Yonette Thomas, Urban Health 360, USA
Jeremy Myerson, Royal College of Art, USA

Cities & Health and all special issues, including the 2023 HCD Congress Issue ‘Urban renewal and health equity through resilience and regeneration’, can be found at: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcah20/special-issues

A number of articles from the 2023 Congress Issue are open access and freely available:

Urban renewal and health equity: research and insights from the 2023 Healthy City Design International Congress
Jeremy Myerson & Marcus Grant
View here: https://www.tandfonline.com/do...

Research for city practice
Marcus Grant & Marc Sansom
View here: https://www.tandfonline.com/do...

Professional agency for urban health design: a call for collective responsibility. Healthy City Design International 2022 review
Hannah Arnett
View here: https://www.tandfonline.com/do...

Peri-urban landscapes and the potential of integrated foodscapes to support healthy cities: an Aotearoa New Zealand case study
Shannon Davis, Guanyu Chen, Naomi Darvill & Marcus Robinson
View here: https://www.tandfonline.com/do...

A thematic analysis of UK healthy planning frameworks and tools designed to support the inclusion of health in urban planning
Amber De La Haye, Ruth Gow, Amelia A. Lake, Caitlin Ball, Sebastiaan van Herk, Marta Rofin Serra, Andy Jones, Michael Chang & Helen J. Moore
View here: https://www.tandfonline.com/do...

Review of indicator frameworks supporting urban planning for resilience and health
Anna Karaan, Yana Antonenko, Amaya Celaya Alvarez, Sozvin Al Youssef, Esteban Leon, Matthias Braubach & Sinaia Netanyahu
View here: https://www.tandfonline.com/do...

Urban planning for health: experiences from 12 European cities of building resilience at the local level
Carlota Sáenz de Tejada, Carolyn Daher, Laura Hidalgo, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Sinaia Netanyahu & Matthias Braubach
View here: https://www.tandfonline.com/do...

Urban planning, design and management approaches to building urban resilience: a rapid review of the evidence
Carlota Sáenz de Tejada, Carolyn Daher, Laura Hidalgo, Sinaia Netanyahu, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen & Matthias Braubach
View here: https://www.tandfonline.com/do...