A Healthy City

Abstract

The discussion “A Healthy City” united participants from different professional spheres. They tried to define the scope of the notion of healthy urban environment and touched upon the notions of psychological health of the urban environment and the relationship of the ideas of comfort, health and happiness of citizens. The participants admitted the necessity of reaching the balance between a healthy lifestyle and a desire for passive comfort and hypodynamia. They spoke about the possibility to create architecture, which major priority is health, as well as peculiarities of training architects aimed at creating healthy cities.

Keywords

• health; comfort; happiness; architecture; design; medicine; salutogenic design