𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 - 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 & 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡

A call for contributions was developed and opened at a workshop session at the 58th ISOCARP World Planning Congress ‘From wealthy to healthy cities’ October 2022, Brussels. A collaboration between ISOCARP Community of Practice Urban Health and the Cities & Health Journal. With some 15 submissions submitted a few months ago, we are happy to announce that the first three papers have just been published online, both are open access: 

Is your city planned for all citizens as they age? Selecting the indicators to measure neighbourhoods’ age-friendliness in the urban planning field by Silvia Urra-Uriarte, Patricia Molina-Costa, Unai Martin, Uyen Nhu Tram & Juanita Devis Clavijo. 

Growing evidence that physical activity-supportive neighbourhoods can mitigate infectious and non-communicable diseases by Deepti Adlakha, Carl Higgs & James F. Sallis. 

Inter-rater reliability of the ‘Tool for assessing determinants of health in public space’ in a co-creative urban design process with care home residents in Barcelona: a Health CASCADE study by Jorge R. Zapata-Restrepo, Giuliana R. Longworth, Mai J.M. Chin-A-Paw, Philippa Dall, Dawn A. Skelton, Sacra Morejón Torné & Maria Giné-Garriga  

Zeynep Enlil is the lead guest editor of the Special Issue with Elisabeth Belpaire, Geoffrey Grulois and Greg Mews. Notably, the Chief Editor of Cities & Health, Marcus Grant, has played a crucial role in overseeing the development and publication of this significant endeavor.