The Healthy Cities Generator's holistic approach makes it much better than any other tools out there. When applying it to the Seacombe River Corridor masterplan, we found that its real strength is putting health on the design table, along with all the other required rules and regulations. The tool’s visual outputs are really useful for understanding the different impacts we can expect from an urban plan and provided us with valuable insights moving forwards in the planning process.

We knew what the benefits would be, but we didn’t have that data, and that’s what the Healthy Cities Generator allowed us to do. It was a strong tool that enabled us to talk to different departments, whether it’s planning, public health, or highway engineers, and also show the different outputs—whether they’re highways, green infrastructure, health and well-being, mental health, or physical health. All these things really matter from an economic perspective, especially when you’re building a city.

This kind of tool allows us to have numbers and numbers are necessary to make good decisions. Thats why I think that we need this kind of tool in the work that we do - urban planning, mobility, whatever we are working on in the territory and in our cities.

The Healthy Cities Generator asks questions in an unbiased, understandable and relatable way – I felt no anxiety about answering these questions or the need to consider many possible answers. The process makes users think about their personal experience in a place in a constructive way – possibly in ways they hadn’t before.