Metrics, tools and methods for planning and designing healthy and sustainable built environments, will be elicited through literature review –scientific evidence-, and analysis of case studies at all scales –from policies and regulations to planning and design- related to the social dimension. 

The mains topics proposed for this edition are:

(1) Physical Activity in the City (Benefits/Problems), The City as a Gym.

(2) Safety Perception: Determinants of Fear, Effects of Fear in Public Space.

(3) Empowerment and Social Capital: Empowerment Theories and Urban Transformation, Social Capital in Urban Areas.

(4) Environmental Justice: Gentrification and Health in Global Cities, Health Effects in Gentrified Neighbourhoods.

(5) Everyday Urbanism: Cooperative Urban Transformation Processes.

(6) Citizen Science: Evaluation of Citizen Science Initiatives, Co-Designing Citizen Science Projects, Citizen Science and Urban Sustainability.