Place-Making in Healthy Communities

What is it about?

Currently, both in practice and theoretical studies, the construction of healthy communities predominantly focuses on enhancing physical spaces. However, there is limited guidance on promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors and only superficial discussions regarding operation and maintenance systems. The theory of scenes holds profound significance in urban research and spatial quality improvement, addressing not only the physical environment but also forms of social organization. The healthy community is the basic unit in social space for the construction of the health scene. Therefore, applying the new perspective of scene theory respects the established standards and guidelines while exploring the creation of healthy communities to guide people’s healthy lifestyles and direct design practice. The research analyses the domestic healthy community research, summarizing the connotations and the development history of healthy communities both domestically and internationally, and compares the content of concern, research units, and the connotation composition of healthy communities internationally. Based on scene theory, it analyses the relationship between the physical environment of a healthy community and the behavioural styles of people in a healthy community. With the help of scene theory, it proposes five elements of healthy communities (residents and collaborators, physical space, health service facilities, health activities, and community values) and nine sub-scenes (healthy environment, healthy living, healthy transportation, health services, healthy facilities, healthy hygiene, healthy activities, healthy society, and healthy policies) . At the same time, it conducts a comparative analysis of the typical standards of domestic and foreign healthy communities, and incorporates the differences in the creation of healthy communities at home and abroad to improve the content and operation systems of healthy communities.

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Photo by Hugh Whyte on Unsplash