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Using open data and open-source software to develop spatial indicators of urban design and transport features for achieving healthy and sustainable cities

Benchmarking and monitoring urban design and transport features is critical to achieving local and international health and sustainability goals. However, most urban indicator frameworks use coarse spatial scales that only allow between-city comparisons or require expensive, technical, local spatial analyses for within-city comparisons. This study developed a reusable open-source urban indicator computational framework using open data to enable consistent local and global comparative analyses. We demonstrate this framework by calculating spatial indicators - for 25 diverse cities in 19 countries - of urban design and transport features that support health and sustainability. We link these indicators to cities' policy contexts and identify populations living above and below critical thresholds for physical activity through walking. Efforts to broaden participation in crowdsourcing data and to calculate globally consistent indicators are essential for planning evidence-informed urban interventions, monitoring policy impacts, and learning lessons from peer cities to achieve health, equity, and sustainability goals.
- Ghent University Belgium
- University of Technology Sydney Australia
- University of Lisbon Portugal
- University of Valencia Spain
- North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University United States
FOS: Computer and information sciences, General Economics (econ.GN), Health Status, physical activity, Global Health, urban geography, healthy cities, SDGs, Series, Computation (stat.CO), health equity, Economics - General Economics, 000, public health, 720, sustainability, GIS, accessibility, urban design, Statistics - Applications, Statistics - Computation, urban planning, FOS: Economics and business, equity, urban policy, social justice, Humans, Applications (stat.AP), Cities, geospatial, walkability, transportation, Spatial Analysis, land use, indicators, data science, civil engineering, Software, livability
FOS: Computer and information sciences, General Economics (econ.GN), Health Status, physical activity, Global Health, urban geography, healthy cities, SDGs, Series, Computation (stat.CO), health equity, Economics - General Economics, 000, public health, 720, sustainability, GIS, accessibility, urban design, Statistics - Applications, Statistics - Computation, urban planning, FOS: Economics and business, equity, urban policy, social justice, Humans, Applications (stat.AP), Cities, geospatial, walkability, transportation, Spatial Analysis, land use, indicators, data science, civil engineering, Software, livability
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