ABSTRACT
The emergent Active Cities approach has been firstly promoted by the public health sector (Edward and Tsouros, 2008), and investigated through town planning, socio-educational, and physical activity perspectives (Borgogni, 2012; SUSTRANS, 2015; Dorato, 2015; Borgogni and Farinella, 2017). New urban challenges are emerging and need to be tackled in integrated manners. The world experiences great urbanization trends, such trends are deeply changing not only the social context as well as people’s habits and health conditions,. Thus, the promotion of walkable and, more broadly, physical-activity-friendly urban environments and active lifestyles reaches several requirements. The Active City model should be able to guide the practice of urban within the legislation and the urbanism disciplines topics. New instruments and methodologies are being conceived and tested, trying to overcome the paradoxical lack of planning and design-oriented instruments as well as professional contributions within the Active City field: most important, the Active City Chart.
