Are cities healthy? A city health diagnose framework from the perspective of living organism
Cities, as organisms, exhibit complicated phenomena of life characteristics. With global urbanisation, sustaining the health status of cities has become an imperative issue. Proper diagnose upon the healthy status of cities requires a set of scientific and rigorous city health diagnose toolkits. Wit...
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| description | Cities, as organisms, exhibit complicated phenomena of life characteristics. With global urbanisation, sustaining the health status of cities has become an imperative issue. Proper diagnose upon the healthy status of cities requires a set of scientific and rigorous city health diagnose toolkits. With regard to city health diagnosis, extant studies have proposed various indicators. Whilst the diagnosis indicators appear to be fragmented and lack an organism perspective in investigating urban health status. This study thus fulfills the gap of existing literature by treating cities as living organisms and establish a conceptual framework of city living organism, which is composed by five aspects of living characteristics, including metabolism, response, adaptivity, growth, and reproduction. Based on the city organism framework, a set of city somatic index system is proposed, and detailed guidance upon how to use this set of index system to conduct city health diagnose is provided. City health diagnosis in referring to the established conceptual framework and index system can be undertaken at three levels: macro, meso and micro. The validity of the established city health diagnosis framework is tested via a case study of 12 Chinese cities. The city organism framework and city health diagnose index system provide a scientific toolkit for city managers and researchers to systematically investigate city health status and address any underlying urban diseases. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-953ee1382daf452f86a919644b72ca6a2024-04-12T04:44:43ZengElsevierEcological Indicators1470-160X2024-03-01160111834Are cities healthy? A city health diagnose framework from the perspective of living organismShuming Zhao0Yitian Ren1Chao Mao2Aobo Yue3School of Management Science and Real Estate, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, ChinaDepartment of Planning, Property and Environmental Management, Manchester Urban Institute, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UKSchool of Management Science and Real Estate, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China; International Research Center for Sustainable Built Environment, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China; Corresponding author.School of Management Science and Real Estate, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, ChinaCities, as organisms, exhibit complicated phenomena of life characteristics. With global urbanisation, sustaining the health status of cities has become an imperative issue. Proper diagnose upon the healthy status of cities requires a set of scientific and rigorous city health diagnose toolkits. With regard to city health diagnosis, extant studies have proposed various indicators. Whilst the diagnosis indicators appear to be fragmented and lack an organism perspective in investigating urban health status. This study thus fulfills the gap of existing literature by treating cities as living organisms and establish a conceptual framework of city living organism, which is composed by five aspects of living characteristics, including metabolism, response, adaptivity, growth, and reproduction. Based on the city organism framework, a set of city somatic index system is proposed, and detailed guidance upon how to use this set of index system to conduct city health diagnose is provided. City health diagnosis in referring to the established conceptual framework and index system can be undertaken at three levels: macro, meso and micro. The validity of the established city health diagnosis framework is tested via a case study of 12 Chinese cities. The city organism framework and city health diagnose index system provide a scientific toolkit for city managers and researchers to systematically investigate city health status and address any underlying urban diseases.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X24002917Health citiesCity living organismCity life characteristicsIndex systemCity health diagnose |
| spellingShingle | Shuming Zhao Yitian Ren Chao Mao Aobo Yue Are cities healthy? A city health diagnose framework from the perspective of living organism Ecological Indicators Health cities City living organism City life characteristics Index system City health diagnose |
| title | Are cities healthy? A city health diagnose framework from the perspective of living organism |
| title_full | Are cities healthy? A city health diagnose framework from the perspective of living organism |
| title_fullStr | Are cities healthy? A city health diagnose framework from the perspective of living organism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Are cities healthy? A city health diagnose framework from the perspective of living organism |
| title_short | Are cities healthy? A city health diagnose framework from the perspective of living organism |
| title_sort | are cities healthy a city health diagnose framework from the perspective of living organism |
| topic | Health cities City living organism City life characteristics Index system City health diagnose |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X24002917 |
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