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ULI Tech Conference - 4th Revolution
Curious to know what London will look like in 2020? Delegates at the recent ULI Tech Conference found the answer in startling resolution.Da
As people live longer and many cities densify it is becoming more apparent that the urban environment plays an increasingly integral role in human health. ULI recently held a Retail focused Healthy Places Roundtable in Birmingham, bringing together key players (see attendees in summary link below) from across the urban life-cycle to understand and challenge how property and the urban environment could play a leadership role in improving citizen health.
The roundtable also forms part of a growing programme across ULI with two earlier forums in the UK and the Health in Building Healthy Places Toolkit. The toolkit (see resources below) outlines evidence and strategies to enhance health through changes in approaches to buildings and projects for developers, owners, property managers, designers, investors, and others involved in real estate decision making. This roundtable therefore focused on how retail and its related sectors could further contribute to creating healthier people and communities by enhancing and meeting the growing desire for healthy urban environments.
Key findings
‘in the past, we focused on disease prevention but we are now in a new era of preventive health and wellbeing that focuses on a system approach that challenges current structures and reform is needed’ Justin Harris, Studio Principle, IBI Group
The Roundtable highlighted the complexity of health but also reasuringly provided a wealth of solutions. A full summary can be found in the link below and includes:
Read the full summary here: ULI Retail Healthy Places Summary
Kindly hosted by John Lewis and sponsored by IBI Group
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