ABSTRACT

The type of data collected with the Healthy Place Method and the synthesis represented in the maps offer the possibility of calculating different indices. The main index concerns the Healthy, Liveability and Happiness Place Index, which collects and reduces the degree of healthiness of the place to a number. More specific indices can then be created, from information on particular data such as the Creativity Place Index, which summarizes the data relating to the presence of artistic elements capable of giving a perception of liveability to the place, and the Environmental Activity Index, which expresses with a number the presence of natural activities that involve people offering a perception of healthiness to the place. The index can be calculated in different periods of the year in order to measure the impact of the activities in different weather conditions. The Creativity Place index is calculating summing factors deriving by the comparison with some principles of the Charter associated to a weight.