CUI Minyu, ZHUANG Yu, YE Yu

Keywords： Holistic Health; High-density City; Urban Built Environment; Design Strategy; Urban Design

Abstract：

As population continues to agglomerate in cities, high density has emerged as a prominent feature of large cities, accompanied by growing concerns regarding urban health issues. While problems such as traffic congestion, residential overcrowding, and environmental degradation are exacerbated in high-density cities, the compact urban layout and well-developed public transportation can also contribute to reduced energy consumption and increased physical activity levels among residents. These dual impacts are interconnected. Therefore, how to allocate built environment elements through urban planning and design to improve residents’ overall health while mitigating the negative effects of density has become a critical issue for urban health development. This paper proposes a design concept in holistic health and explore it through a case study involving multi-source data from four typical high-density cities: New York, Paris, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Based on the basic behavioral activities in cities, the study identifies different dimensions of the built environment that are crucial for health and quantitatively analyzes the influence of high-density built environments on urban health. Ultimately, it summarizes the demands of urban planning and design for holistic health and explores strategies for designing highdensity built environments with the overarching goal of promoting holistic health.

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