On Wednesday, March 23, from 11am to 12:30pm, NOVABUILD and Air Pays de la Loire will be hosting a series of presentations and discussions on the issue of taking health aspects into account in urban planning decisions. This issue is both central to everyone's interests and cross-cutting, as it affects all aspects of a planning project.

Spatial planning, and in particular the quality of the urban environment in which people live, influences their health and well-being. At a time when three-quarters of the French population live in urbanized areas, planning choices are important levers for preventing and promoting health. Taking account of chronic disease issues will play an increasingly important role in urban planning in the years to come.

The program

11:00 am: Air quality, a public health issue

• Charlotte DELPEUX, Communications Officer, Air Pays de la Loire

11h10: Health, climate and city dwellers

• Géraldine MOLINA, CNRS researcher at the ESO laboratory (UMR 6590) and the IRSTV (FR CNRS 2488)

11:30 a.m.: Urban planning & air quality: planning to control exposure to air pollution

• Arnaud REBOURS, Reference Engineer at Air Pays de la Loire

11:50: Living well in the city: towards health-friendly urban planning

• Simon DAVIES, Director of AIA Environnement and Vice-President of the AIA Foundation

12.10pm: Discussions

12:30 pm: End of Webinar

To register for the webinar, click here.

Free, subject to availability.