ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses how professionals, policy makers, researchers, and people from all walks of life should collaborate to co-create built environments that facilitate and sustain health and well-being. It presents innovative ways of constructing buildings, infrastructure, and services. These innovative contributions influence what is designed and planned, how it is constructed, and those conditions in which new built environments are used and maintained. The chapter talks about the way we build and plan to live in our habitat, an artefact created by human intentions, and a democratic arena constructed for dialogue about our future. It is meant to stimulate debate among a large audience of professionals, researchers, and people who want to understand what is changing and what needs to change, to meet the challenges of planning and constructing built environments for current and future generations.