11 Qualities of a Healthy City
- A clean, safe, high-quality physical environment (including housing quality)
- An ecosystem which is stable now and sustainable in the long term
- A strong, mutually supportive, and non-exploitive community
- A high degree of public participation in and control over the decisions affecting one’s life, health, and well-being
- The meeting of basic needs (food, water, shelter, income, safety, and work) for all the city’s people
- Access to a wide variety of experiences and resources with the possibility of multiple contacts, interaction, and communication
- A diverse, vital, and innovative city economy
- Encouragement of connectedness with the past, with the cultural and biological heritage, and with other groups and individuals
- A city form that is compatible with and enhances the above parameters and behaviors
- An optimum level of appropriate public health and sick care services accessible to all
- High health status (both high positive health status and low disease status