Towards liveable urban environments by addressing health from a spatial perspective: exploration by mapping environmental noise and air pollution in the Northern fringe of Brussels Ghent University
Although a growing societal awareness for the impact of the built environment on health and well-being urges spatial planners to take health aspirations into account, the issue is mostly addressed very late in the planning process.This results in a rather short term perspective of possible solutions and a mainly local focus on measures to mitigate environmental nuisance. The article starts from the existing gap between the requisite technical ...