Promoting Resilient and Healthy Cities for Everyone in an Urban Planning Context by Assessing Green Area Accessibility

Rapid economic development and population growth has led to urban densification massive land use changes, putting pressure on both ecosystems, people. In this context, public health issues have become crucial for cities address ensure they remain livable healthy everyone. Since the challenges of tend manifest themselves differently among different groups—e.g., groups higher socioeconomic status be correlated with better than low status—closing gap a priority creating More greenness close where people live accessibility green areas been shown useful improving human tackling inequalities. This paper aims at developing method supporting planners policymakers geographically prioritize investments in infrastructure contribute closing promote community resilience through health. Using City Stockholm as pilot, we apply GIS analysis identify vulnerable relation geotagged empirical health- socio-economic data. By then assessing populations numbers areas, an Urban Green Opportunity Map (UGOM) was created, identifying focus investment will most building resilience.