Report 1/2018
Healthy High Streets - Good place-making in an urban setting by Sorcha Daly, Jessica Allen

Healthy High Streets - Good place-making in an urban setting

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Summary

Effective interventions on high streets have the potential to make communities more resilient and to deliver significant quality of life and health benefits to local populations, in particular those who are vulnerable and marginalised.

This report focuses on the following approaches that have been shown to have direct and indirect impacts on health:

  1. High street diversity
  2. Green and blue infrastructure
  3. Traffic calming
  4. Street furniture
  5. Crime prevention and security