The spatial urban liveability index
(ULI) is a tool to inform localised interventions supporting creation of healthier,
more sustainable cities. The Urban Liveability Index and its 15 component indicators were calculated for 1,550,641 residential
address proxy sample points across the urban portion of Greater Melbourne using ABS census data and other data sources.
Construction of the pilot index is described in Higgs, C., Badland, H., Simons, K. and Giles-Corti, B. The Urban Liveability Index: developing a policy-relevant urban liveability composite measure and evaluating associations with transport mode choice. Int J Health Geogr 18, 14 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-019-0178-8.
The revised 15 indicator version of the Urban Liveability Index presented here was described in Higgs, C., Badland, H., Simons, K. and Giles-Corti, B. Urban liveability and adult cardiometabolic health: policy-relevant evidence from a cross-sectional Australian built environment data linkage study. npj Urban Sustainability (2021; publication forthcoming).
Funding
What cost-effective built environment interventions would create healthy, liveable and equitable communities in Australia, and what would facilitate these being translated into policy and practice?
Building urban planning and health evidence to inform policy and practice that creates healthy, liveable and equitable communities designed to prevent non-communicable diseases