ABSTRACT
By 2050, 70% of the world’s inhabitants are expected to live in urban areas. Continuous population growth and ageing makes the value of planning and designing cities paramount in the provision of physical and social activity, to healthy food and clean air and water. It is a crucial time for understanding cities’ influence on healthy and unhealthy behaviours and the positive and negative impacts of cities on health and wellbeing. This chapter discusses how the urban fabric impact on behaviour. We address how our attitudes affect the environment, which, in turn, affects us, and our mobility, social cohesiveness and loneliness. Finally, this chapter discusses the role of healthcare provision and the integrated care model being sought by the UK government that is based on decentralisation of care delivery.
