A great city shouldn’t just be livable, it should be lovable too. International Urban Consultant Dr. Shipra Narang reports on a two-year assignment by a team of nine experts to explore and assess the key ingredients required to create a successful city that’s fit for the future.
Brought together by the Philips Center for Health & Wellbeing, the think-tank has worked with partners including the Center for Livable Cities in Singapore to identify what makes a city truly livable.
The group is developing self-assessment models to allow cities to see how they are performing against three identified core attributes:
Authenticity: The ability to maintain the local character of the city (heritage, culture & environment)
Resilience: How adaptable the city is in response to changes or stresses
Inclusiveness: How well the city creates social integration and cohesion
Each attribute is also viewed in relation to the environment and society (culture, economics and technology).
Find out how the model cuts across the traditional desciplines of social science, city planning and economics to address the challenges of the future.
Read the Decoding the Livable City article