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THE FUTURE OF CITIES, HEALTH

AND THE STREET

THE WORLD IS CHANGING RAPIDLY

CITIES

CITIES1 RAPID URBANISATION2 RISE IN TECHNOLOGY3 CLIMATE CHANGE4 VULNERABILITY/RESILIENCE 5 RISE OF THE HEALTHY CITY

URBANISATION

50% TODAY

URBANISATION

70% BY 2050

3 MILLION PEOPLE MOVE TO CITIES EVERY WEEK - UN HABITAT 09

RAPID. UNPRECEDENTED

CITIES1 RAPID URBANISATION2 RISE IN TECHNOLOGY3 CLIMATE CHANGE4 VULNERABILITY/RESILIENCE 5 RISE OF THE HEALTHY CITY

CLIMATE CHANGE

VULNERABILITY/RESILIENCE

Image Credit: Google Images –Flood Imagery – Brisbane – Wooloowin – January 2011

$ 6 BILLION

Image credit: https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2011/jan/12/brisbane-floods-queensland-residents-flee

CITIES1 RAPID URBANISATION2 RISE IN TECHNOLOGY3 CLIMATE CHANGE4 VULNERABILITY/RESILIENCE 5 RISE OF THE HEALTHY CITY

THE HEALTHY CITY1 GROWTH IN LIFESTYLE DISEASE + MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS - COST2 GROWTH IN DATA AROUND URBAN DESIGN AND POPULATION HEALTH

WHAT MAKES US HEALTHY?

HEALTHCARE + GENES &

BIOLOGY PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

HEALTHY BEHAVIOURS

SOCIO-ECONOMICS

ALL INFLUENCED BY THE

DESIGN OF THE BUILT

ENVIRONMENT

THERE IS A RAPIDLY GROWING BODY OF EVIDENCE LINKING THE CONDITION AND QUALITY OF OUR BUILT ENVIRONMENT TO OUR HEALTH AND TO THE CHOICESTHAT WE MAKE THAT PROMOTE HEALTH

POPULATIONS WITH ACCESS TO GREEN SPACE ..

+ LOWER BMI, OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY LEVELS

+ LOWER PREMATURE MORTALITY DUE TO CIRCULATORY DISEASE

+ LOWER RATES OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE AND DIABETES

+ LOWER METABOLIC SYNDROME RATES

+ BETTER SELF-REGULATED HEALTH

+ INCREASED LONGEVITY

+ BETTER FITNESS AND OVERALL HEALTH

- It even seems to reduce the effect of inequality on health

WHEN WALKING IN NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS, SUCH AS FORESTS OR PARKS..+ HEART RATE LOWERS

+ PULSE RATE LOWERS

+ CORTISOL LEVELS DECREASE

+ LOWER SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY

+ ACTIVITY IN THE SUB-GENUAL PRE-FRONTAL CORTEX LOWERS

+ WE FEEL CALMER AND MORE RELAXED

+ IMMUNE SYSTEM FUNCTIONING IS BOOSTED: THERE IS AN INCREASE IN BODY’S NATURAL KILLER CELLS

+ OUR ATTENTION IS RESTORED

The effect extends to healthcare - in hospitals, views to natural environments lead to lower medication doses, decreased hospital stays, happier and healthier patients and staff and lower staff turnover

+ CITY DWELLERS HAVE HIGHER LEVELS OF DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND ASSOCIATED MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS

+ CITY DWELLING IS NOW WELL CORRELATED WITH THE ONSET OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

+ THE REASON FOR CITY STRESS LEADING TO MENTAL ILL HEALTH IS LIKELY COMPLEX AND WOULD INCLUDE A NUMBER OF ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS, BUT A DOSE RESPONSE DOES APPEAR TO EXIST

URBAN ENVIRONMENTS

HEALTHY CITIES

• ACTIVE TRANSPORT - WALKABLE CITIES • SAFE FOR CYCLING – CYCLING CITIES• BOUNTIFUL GREEN AND BLUE SPACES• VIBRANT WITH ACTIVE CENTRES• SOCIAL SPACES (THIRD SPACES)• MIXED USE • DENSITY (?) • CONNECTIVITY• CLEAN AIR • EQUITABLE

THE CENTRE OF THE CITY, THE STREET

WHAT IS THE STREET OF THE

FUTURE?

WHY DOES IT MATTER?

30% - 40% OF PUBLIC CITY LAND

IN AUSTRALIA

THE STREET IS OUR BIGGEST PUBLIC

SPACE

TRANSIT ORIENTED CAR & BUS DOMINATED

THIS TYPE OF TRANSPORT AND STREET PROMOTES NOISE, POLLUTION,

OBESITY, CARBON EMISSIONS, URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT, CLIMATE

CHANGE,

THE AVERAGE CAR IS PARKED 95% OF THE DAY

Image Credit: Google Maps

Image Credit: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-29/potential-road-chaos-as-engineers-rush-to-fix-brsbane-road/4162420

ACTIVATION

FUTURE STREETCIRCULAR QUAY, SYDNEY 2017

• OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER – FEDERAL FUNDING

• AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS

• SMART CITIES COUNCIL AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

• INTERNET OF THINGS ALLIANCE• PLACE DESIGN GROUP - CAT

WHO?

BRIEF:• GREEN, COMPLETE & SMART• 60 METRES, ALFRED STREET, CIRCULAR QUAY

WHAT?

RETURN BRIEF:• GREEN, COMPLETE & SMART• BIOPHILIC • HEALTHY • RESILIENT• GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE• ACTIVATED • BEAUTIFUL

WHAT?

Image Credit: http://www.aila.org.au/imis_prod/THE3RDCITY/THE3RDCITY/2017_Events/Future_Street.aspx

WHERE?

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2017

Image Credit: GoGet CarShare Via Instagram

FUTURE STREET

Image Credit: Sydney Morning Herald, Image by Place Design Group

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2017

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2017

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2017

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2017

W

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2017 Newspaper photo: Smart Cities Council ANZ

• TENS OF THOUSANDS OF VISITORS• BROADLY POPULAR• GREAT DEMONSTRATION• WON THE WORLD ARCHITECTURE NEWS

URBAN CHALLENGE AWARD• BUT…. COULD IT BE IMPROVED?

WHAT HAPPENED

• BUT…. COULD IT BE IMPROVED?• DESIGNER LED • INCLUSIVITY?• ENGAGEMENT AND UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT

THE PUBLIC REALLY FEEL WAS LACKING• BIG ISSUES AROUND SMART TECHNOLOGY.

DOES IT PRIORITISE • EFFICIENCY < HAPPINESS

ACTIVATION

#GREENTHESTREETTHE EKKA, BRISBANE 2018

WHERE? Image Credit: Google Maps

RETURN BRIEF:• GREEN, COMPLETE & SMART• BIOPHILIC • HEALTHY • RESILIENT• GREY INFRASTRUCTURE TO GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE• ACTIVATED • BEAUTIFUL

WHAT?

BRIEF:• GREEN, COMPLETE & SMART• BIOPHILIC • HEALTHY • RESILIENT• ACTIVATED • BEAUTIFUL • ART-FILLED, ART LED • COLLECTIVE• ELEMENTS OF SPONTANIETY• COMMUNITY LED• REAL URBAN AGRICULTURE

• 2 DESIGN COMPANIES• 6 ARTISTS AND ARTS COLLECTIVES• 3 BEEKEEPERS• 1 URBAN FARM• 5 NURSERIES• 1 UNIVERSITY – 3 LECTURERS 25 STUDENTS• 1 ADVOCACY GROUP AGEING REVOLUTION • 1 VIRTUAL REALITY COMPANY • 4 INDUSTRY ORGANISATIONS• THE PUBLIC: <200,000 OVER 10 DAYS

WHO?

GREEN THE STREET : GREENER, HEALTHIER, INCLUSIVE , PEOPLE AND CYCLING FOCUSSED STREETS IN BRISBANE AND AUSTRALIA .

URBAN PARKLETSURBAN RAINFOREST WALLS OF ART , B IOMIMETIC AND BIOPHIL IC ARTURBAN AGRICULTURE HUBA COMPLETE STREET WITH ELECTRIC B IKESVR V IEW 30 YEARS INTO THE FUTUREROBUST COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THROUGH QUT

Courtesy of Real Serious Gamesdit: Google Maps

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2018

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2018

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2018

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2018

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2018

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2018

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2018

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2018

COMMUNITY LED.…LEADING TO COMMUNITY

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2018

HEY CAT… WE WANT TO DO THIS FOR REAL

YOU DO?

…..

Adaptation to, and mitigation of, climate change should follow a similar integrated city-wide approach: (i) fully providing basic health and environmental services (and primary education); (ii) encouraging and enhancing the resilience of community organizations; (iii) improving building quality, partic- ularly residential; (iv) avoiding development in hazardous or sensitive areas; (v) protecting buffering capacities of local ecosystems and minimizing degradation (for example, groundwater, mangroves, and wetlands); (vi) ensuring food security (for example, evaluating relevance of local agriculture provision); (vii) ensuring the security and resilience of water supply (and quality) and energy provision; (viii) strengthening city-wide security nets, resilience planning, and effective public information; (ix) providing and regularly updating publicly available land-use or development plans; (x) effectively integrating migrants and other marginalized groups; (xi) increasing energy efficiency of buildings and transportation; (xii) identifying and, where possible, ameliorating local climate impacts such as ‘urban heat islands’; (xiii) participating in regional and national programs to increase resilience; (xiv) enhancing local economies; (xv) switching to low consumption lifestyles; and (xvi) participating in global policy dialogues (for example, city-influence on national and interna- tional policies, such as agriculture and energy subsidies and UNFCCC negotiations).

World Bank

BRING A PLANT,

BRING A BEER,

SEE YOU THERE.

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2018

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2018

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2018

Photography by Catherine Simpson 2018

Green the Street

Enhances resilience through social capital and connectedness

Gives ownership of place and space to people,

Encourages self-determinancy

Engenders capability

Enhances ecological, agricultural and cultural systems

Embraces low carbon transport options

Engenders equity through complete streets

Makes streets safer

Celebrates people

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

- Jane Jacobs