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ArticleEnvironment and planning. B, urban analytics and city science2025

Global Healthy and Sustainable City Indicators: Collaborative development of an open science toolkit for calculating and reporting on urban indicators internationally.

Carl Higgs, Melanie Lowe, Billie Giles-Corti, Geoff Boeing, Xavier Delclòs-Alió, Anna Puig-Ribera, Deepti Adlakha, Shiqin Liu, Júlio Celso Borello Vargas, Marianela Castillo-Riquelme and 12 more

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Article in Environment and planning. B, urban analytics and city science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Carl HiggsRMIT University, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5903-9095
Melanie LoweRMIT University, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9703-1895
Billie Giles-CortiRMIT University and The University of Western Australia, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0102-0225
Geoff BoeingUniversity of Southern California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1851-6411
Xavier Delclòs-AlióUniversitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7206-2310
Anna Puig-RiberaUniversity of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2910-1924
Deepti AdlakhaDelft University of Technology, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1720-6780
Shiqin LiuUniversity of Minnesota, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9605-3251
Júlio Celso Borello VargasFederal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8321-5362
Marianela Castillo-RiquelmeUniversidad de Chile, Chile.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6933-4602
Afshin JafariRMIT University, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5153-2179
Javier Molina-GarcíaUniversity of Valencia, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6713-5936
Vuokko HeikinheimoFinnish Environment Institute, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5119-0957
Ana QueraltUniversity of Valencia, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4933-0003
Ester CerinAustralian Catholic University, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7599-165X
Eugen ResendizThe University of Texas at Austin, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4500-879X
Dhirendra SinghCSIRO's Data61, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8369-8878
Sebastian RodriguezRMIT University, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0514-9221
Esra SuelUniversity College London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9246-3966
Marc Domínguez-MallafréUniversitat Rovira I Virgili, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0893-170X
Yang YeHarbin Institute of Technology, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2642-0436
Amanda AldertonRMIT University, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4598-2381

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Measuring and monitoring progress towards achieving healthy, equitable and sustainable cities is a priority for planners, policymakers and researchers in diverse contexts globally. Yet data collection, analysis, visualisation and reporting on policy and spatial indicators involve specialised knowledge, skills, and collaboration across disciplines. Integrated open-source tools for calculating and communicating urban indicators for diverse urban contexts are needed, which provide the multiple streams of evidence required to influence policy agendas and enable local changes towards healthier and more sustainable cities. This paper reports on the development of open-source software for planning, analysis and generation of data, maps and reports on policy and spatial indicators of urban design and transport features for healthy and sustainable cities. We engaged a collaborative network of researchers and practitioners from diverse geographic contexts through an online survey and workshops, to understand and progressively meet their requirements for policy and spatial indicators. We outline our framework for action research-informed open-source software development and discuss benefits and challenges of this approach. The resulting Global Healthy and Sustainable City Indicators software is designed to meet the needs of researchers, planners, policy makers and community advocates in diverse settings for planning, calculating and disseminating policy and spatial urban indicators.

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action researchcity planninghealthy citiesopen scienceresearch translationSoftware developmentspatial analysissustainabilityurban indicatorsurban policy

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PMID41918895
PMCPMC13035218

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