May 30, 2012

UCL/Lancet commission on healthy cities

Speakers:
Professor Yvonne Rydin, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
Professor Michael Davies, Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL
Dr Julio Davila, Development Planning Unit, UCL
Professor Nora Groce, Epidemiology & Public Health, UCL

The Lancet and University College London collaborated on a commission to address issues of improving health for city dwellers. The commission outlined how better urban planning is essential to achieve this end, which is matter of increasing urgency given that 3 in 5 of all people globally will live in a city by 2030. The SMC provided a forum to launch the commission’s report.