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UCL-Lancet Commission on Healthy Cities

The Healthy Cities Commission is a UCL Grand Challenge project on the role that urban planning can and should play in delivering health improvements through reshaping the urban fabric of our cities.

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UCL-Lancet Healthy Cities Commission


Following the first UCL-Lancet Commission on the Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change (published in The Lancet on 16 May 2009), UCL and The Lancet collaborated again on a second Commission report. 

The Healthy Cities Commission is a UCL Grand Challenge on Sustainable Cities project on the role that urban planning can and should play in delivering health improvements through reshaping the urban fabric of our cities. The project has involved 19 academics and students from a variety of disciplines led by Yvonne Rydin, Professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy in the UCL Bartlett School of Planning.

> View a full list of collaborators 

The Commission's report, Shaping Cities for Health: the Complexity of Planning Urban Environments in the 21st Century, has now been published.