Creating Healthy Cities

About

The course explores the built environment and examines how health and disease shape urban infrastructure and vice versa. It covers socio-political aspects of healthy urban living with a focus on disparities and migration challenges. Finally socio-ecological aspects are examined, in particular adaptation to climate change, management of disaster risks and opportunities for combining green and healthy urban development.

Examples from urban settings around the world will be matched with real-life cases in locations in Copenhagen in a programme combining lectures, field visits, and consultations with stakeholders in the private and public sector. The participants will also work in multidisciplinary teams on ideas to promote health and wellbeing in a selected neighborhood under development in Copenhagen.

Course leader

Course Director: Anne Bach Nielsen and Bjørg Elvekjær

Target group

The course is aimed at master's students. You can apply, if you have completed a bachelor's degree (or equivalent).

Fee info