Linking public health and urban planning

Since the beginning of March 2014 I have been following the online course TechniCity to further educate me in the future of cities. In this course I have learned about the increasing availability of networks, sensors and mobile technologies, which allow for new approaches to address the challenges that our cities face.

As part of this course I have worked on a project which aims to link public health and urban planning in the city of Amsterdam. Part of the feedback on the project proposal was “This is an excellent proposal on a worthy topic. You clearly presented why this is a problem at a national level” and it was graded 40/40.

As a final project I made a video which was evaluated by my peers, their comments were “Nice and clear project”, “Your project seams to meet your objective, great work”, “It’s a good idea to plan the city searching a better health condition to their citizens. The only thing that I find that could be wrong on the equality of the neighborhoods is the perception on the citizens that some neighborhoods are better to live than another one” and one more “I think this app is a fabulous look into the future of our health, as well as the future of data collection. The ideas presented were very interesting and modern. The commercial was very clear and informative and visually appealing. The only thing not fully addressed is how this app was to be paid for”. In total it was evaluated by 5 peers and graded 60/60.

I very much appreciate the critical feedback regarding the equality issues and the financial model. Other challenges that could arise are privacy and participation. I look forward to receiving feedback from you as well, so please let me know what you think.