ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the problems of overcrowding in remote Indigenous communities, and its effects on health, to increasing urban density. It shows how a design approach applied in remote Indigenous communities can be implemented in urban settings to improve environmental public health and equitable access to basic amenities in public space. The chapter provides the similarities in the issues facing regional and urban households and proposes some solutions. Shops, escalators, handrails, door handles, change rooms, seats, tables, and other things people touch in daily urban life are covered with germs and pathogens. The chapter highlights some issues to indicate how links between inside conditions and outside use of healthy living hardware can be forged in an urban setting. In a dense urban setting, the links between inputs and their results are harder to discern as the quantity of inputs to consider is far greater.
