Building Health
Building Health: Planning and designing for health and happiness
One-day Conference: Friday 22 January 2010, UWE, Bristol
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Keynote presentations and photographs from the conference are now available to view online.
Today there is growing recognition of the impact that the built environment has on public health. Planning and design can play a pivotal role in tackling today’s urgent challenges such as sedentary lifestyles, obesity and health inequality. Housing growth and regeneration provide opportunities to ‘build in’ health from the start and to improve existing environments. This sell-out conference brought together professionals, academics and policy-makers to share inspirational stories of success and identify how we can work together more effectively.
'The presentations were inspirational.' Conference delegate
Speakers included:
- Wulf Daseking, Director of City Planning, Freiburg, Germany
- Irena Bauman, Bauman Lyons Architects, author of How to be a Happy Architect
- Mike Kelly, Director, Centre for Public Health Excellence, NICE
- Sarah Gaventa, Director, CABE Space
- Richard Cass, Cass Associates and CABE Commissioner
- Chair: Judy Orme, Director of the Centre for Public Health Research, University of the West of England
Supporters included:
CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment)
Forum for the Future
Homes & Communities Agency
Institute of Highways and Transportation
Natural England
RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects)
RTPI (Royal Town Planning Institute)
Sustainable Health South West
Sustrans
SWSHA (South West Strategic Health Authority)
UK Public Health Association
West of England Partnership
Conference organised by The Architecture Centre in partnership with the Department of Health, Government Office for the South West and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Cities and Urban Policy at the University of the West of England. Hosted by the Institute for Sustainability, Health and Environment at UWE.
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