Urban Health

Understanding urban health is essential for creating healthier environments, enhancing well-being, and strengthening the interconnected health of humans, animals, and ecosystems. The Urban Health collaboration at SLU is led by the two Future Platforms: SLU Urban Futures and SLU Future One Health.

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An interdisciplinary knowledge field

With growing urban populations, creating environments that support human, animal, and ecosystem health is more important than ever. SLU hosts a broad range of expertise on sustainable and healthy cities. The Urban Health collaboration aims to highlight key interdisciplinary research and foster collaboration across disciplines and sectors.

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Urban Health – Diverse perspectives on health in urban settings

How can we understand the term Urban Healthscapes? SLU Urban Futures and SLU Future One Health teamed up in an Urban Health webinar in January 2024, aiming to bring together diverse perspectives on health in urban settings. Watch the recording of the webinar!

Exploring Urban healthscapes with interdisciplinary experts and new perspectives

In part two of the Urban Health webinar series we continue to explore the concept of 'Urban Healthscapes'. We investigate how the design of urban landscapes and urban planning affects our well-being and our health.

Urban Heat

A transdisciplinary collaboration between health-related sciences, urban planning, design and communication, delving into how strategic and collaborative urban development plays a critical role in addressing climate change challenges.

Bridging disciplines through Urban Healthscapes

Read the summary and key messages from the first Urban Health webinar arranged in collaboration between the research platforms SLU Future One Health and SLU Urban Futures.

Environmental Psychology

Research and education within the group for environmental psychology at SLU concentrate on studies of outdoor environments in relation to well-being, quality of life and health.

A lush garden with a large wooden table.

Urban forests for a welfare society: running and the forest ideal in Swedish recreational planning

Mattias Qviström, professor in Landscape architecture at SLU presents the role of urban forests for recreational planning in Sweden from the 1960s until today, focusing especially on the welfare planning in the 1970s.

Published: 18 February 2025 - Page editor: urbanfutures@slu.se

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