By exploring how other places and projects have achieved healthy urban development, we understand what might work in our own communities.
Healthy Urban Development Case Studies
The case studies below are part of a project that sought to understand how property professionals perceive ‘healthy’ development. We searched widely for projects that aimed to promote health and reviewed all of the information that we could find about these cases. The summary stories below are not necessarily posted as ‘best practice’, but they each have interesting lessons and some are inspiring examples of healthy urbanism.
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Barton Park
Providing 885 new homes and community services, the Barton Park development is an extension to Barton, a neighbourhood of around…
Bullitt Center
The Bullitt Center office building in Seattle, USA pioneered deep green design methods that pushed the boundaries of sustainable architecture….
Connswater Community Greenway
Connswater Community Greenway (CCG) is an urban greenspace regeneration project in east Belfast transforming a blighted public space into a…
Ebbsfleet Garden City
Ebbsfleet is a government-sponsored new ‘Garden city’, the first in the UK for over 100 years, located in the South…
Folkets Park
Nørrebro, one of the most densely populated, diverse, and disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Copenhagen, is home to Folkets Park (literally, “People’s…
Grow Community
Grow Community is a planned residential community of 142 homes on an 8-acre site on Bainbridge Island in Washington State,…
Mariposa
Mariposa is located on the site of a former public housing project in Denver, Colorado. The project is a master…
Nightingale Housing
Nightingale 1 is a ‘social experiment’. The apartment building in an inner-city suburb of Melbourne is the first completed example…
Park 20|20
Park 20|20 is the first Cradle-to-Cradle ® (C2C) urban development project in the Netherlands, trailblazing design approaches that minimise resource…
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP) is large-scale, master planned urban regeneration project on the site of the 2012 London…
Stone34
Stone34 is a five-storey, mixed-use commercial building in Seattle, USA on Stone Way between 34th and 35th streets in the…
Sun Valley
Sun Valley is a neighbourhood being redeveloped by the Denver Housing Authority to ‘create a new model of community transformation…
UniverCity Childcare Centre
The UniverCity Childcare Centre at Simon Fraser University (SFU) was the first childcare centre in the world to obtain the…
Via Verde
The Via Verde project was a response to several challenges for the South Bronx community of New York City: lack…
Vila Viva
Vila Viva is a large-scale urban renewal programme across 12 informal settlements in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Using…