Population health is profoundly affected by the liveability of the urban environments where
people live. In Australia today most people live in suburbs which fall well short of the form …

Research has demonstrated that there are health and equity benefits attached to residing in
neighbourhoods with the design, diversity and density required for walkability. Research has …

Liveability is determined by characteristics of a place including walkability and access to
natural environments. These two attributes can be quantified at a fine spatial scale providing …

Increasingly, evidence shows that built environments (BEs) can encourage walking. Not only
does walking have the potential to benefit health, it can also be used as a form of transport …

Creating healthy, liveable cities is a common policy aspiration globally. However, little
research has explored the capacity of urban policies to deliver this aspiration, or levels of …

Issue addressed Growing evidence shows that higher‐density, mixed‐use, pedestrian‐
friendly neighbourhoods encourage active transport, including transport‐related walking …

The next decade will bring population growth and change across the Manningham Local
Government Area (LGA). The resident population for the municipality was over 125,000 in …

In 1998, the Western Australian Government introduced the Liveable Neighbourhoods
Design Code; a policy aimed at using design principles to increase the walking, cycling …

We explored the impact of neighborhood walkability on young adults, early-middle adults,
middle-aged adults, and older adults' walking across different neighborhood buffers …

It has long been recognised that urban form impacts on health outcomes and their
determinants. There is growing interest in creating indicators of liveability to measure …