Understanding how to create healthier places: A qualitative study exploring the complex system of urban development decision-making

Tackling complex system challenges like creating healthy environments requires understanding priorities and structures affecting multiple actors. This qualitative study, involving 132 multi-sectoral stakeholders spanning the urban development decision-making system, explores how to influence healthier place-making. Using thematic analysis, the authors develop themes around competing stakeholder priorities; structural ‘rules’ and influential relationships; and justifying a focus on health, requiring greater clarity and consensus around definitions of ‘healthy’ urban development. Building on the socio-ecological model the authors highlight how a multi-faceted approach is required for change at multiple levels in the complex system to target individual actor motivations, organizational priorities and structural ‘rules’.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103023
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829223000606
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/13538292
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Le Gouais, Anna
  • 0000-0002-3800-2090
  • Bates, Geoff
  • Callway, Rosalie
  • Kwon, Heeseo Rain
  • Montel, Lisa
  • Peake-Jones, Sian
  • White, Jo
  • Hasan, Md Nazmul
  • Koksal, Caglar
  • Barnfield, Andrew
  • Bondy, Krista
  • Ayres, Sarah
• Publication Date: 2023-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 103023
• Serial:
  • Health & Place
  • Volume: 81
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1353-8292
  • EISSN: 1873-2054
  • Serial URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/health-and-place/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Built environment; City planning; Decision making; Physical fitness; Public health; Urban development
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Policy; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01882365
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 22 2023 1:28PM