Neighborhood design and development

Neighborhood design and development is part of the “built environment” subdimension. Neighborhoods are living environments, and the choices that go into developing them have a big impact on people’s quality of life and well-being. PULSAR looks at the various types of built environments and spatial organization at the neighborhood level with a view to assessing their influence on residents’ sustainable health.

The committee has just begun its work on this aspect. Information will be added soon.

PULSAR has developed a conceptual framework for exploring and identifying the best ways to measure and evaluate specific aspects of sustainable health. This framework makes it possible to take stock of existing tools and measures and categorize and classify them according to various criteria such as ease of use, complexity, and implementation cost. Once established by consensus by our committees, this system will provide a quick overview of the tools and measures proposed by PULSAR for each dimension of interest. The conceptual framework is re-evaluated annually to allow the committees to make improvements so it can be used to develop multiple indicators of sustainable health.