Case Study Report

Assessment : Case Study Report.

Your report must include an assessment matrix and a discussion on how the matrix was developed. Your report should also include a discussion of the application of the matrix to the built environment you investigated. You should ensure that you identify the good and not so good elements within that environment and make recommendations on how it could be improved. Consider how you could make your work interesting and easy to understand. Consider the use of diagrams, tables and pictures to get your message across

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Rationale This task will enable students to combine course materials and workshop content to conduct assessments of healthy built environments. Task �What can planning and urban design do to influence the urban environment for improved human health outcomes?�

Your task is to provide an analysis and comparison of urban environments and how these environments can influence public health.

You should consider the major chronic illnesses impacting human health within modern urban environments and establish the linkage to the built environment. That is, what are the elements within our cities which are making us less healthy?

You are to identify these issues and develop an assessment matrix that will guide you when conducting an assessment of the built environment for human health outcomes.

You must be able to justify the uses of the criteria that you have included in your assessment matrix.

For example, if you include a criterion such as “walkable neighbourhoods” you need to explain why this is important and cite evidence to support its importance. You then need to develop a way that you can assess the degree of “walkability”.

Once you have:

1. Developed your assessment matrix;
2. Discussed the criteria that you have included; and,
3. Completed an assessment of an actual built environment,

You are to:

4. Identify the areas in that environment that require the most attention for an improved outcome.

Then you should:

5. Make recommendations as to how these matters may be improved. This may include, for example, the application of regulation, the provision of additional infrastructure or better neighbourhood design.