Samenvatting

‘The living environment as lifestyle coach. Urban environment, beneficial for our health and well-being’. Our urban environment determines our health and wellbeing. Knowing this, how can we, as urban designers, use the living environment as a lifestyle coach, allowing and nudging inhabitants to choose the health options. By rethinking how known urban principles (housing, mobility, green, …) can stimulate health and testing these principles at different scales (district, neighborhood and street level) in Groenewoud, Thea shows that her approach involves both big structural changes in the district (demolishing, rebuild of housing and densifying in order increase frequent interactions and add to the variety of housing types, and a total reorganization of the mobility set-up) and precise interventions at specific locations in the neighborhood and at the street level scale for people to feel save, to meet and to engage with each other and their surroundings.