Mark Nieuwenhuijsen

Mark Nieuwenhuijsen

Director of the Urban Planning, Environment & Health at Barcelona Institute for Global Health | Spain

Ever wondered how healthy it is to live in your city? Mark Nieuwenhuijsen might have the answer to your question! He developed a website that shows the health impact in cities and additionally runs a large EU project to demonstrate the health benefits of better urban and transport planning. Mark relies on excellent examples of people-friendly and healthy urban models, like the Paris 15-minute-city, the Barcelona Superblock, the London low-traffic-neighbourhoods or the Vaugban, Freiburg’s car-free neighbourhood to proof the benefit for a city’s and its citizens’ health.