Inclusive Healthy Places Action Guide for Planners

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Gehl's Inclusive Healthy Places (IHP) Framework presents a system of principles, drivers, and indicators to help built environment practitioners, public health professionals, local leaders, and engaged community members advance inclusivity and health equity through public-space-shaping efforts. American Planning Association research staff developed this action guide to explore how planners could apply the framework in the communities they serve.

This guide serves as an adaptation and extension of the IHP Framework, focusing on actions planners can take to advance inclusion and health equity in efforts to shape public space. Its structure mirrors that of the IHP Framework, stepping through each principle, driver, and indicator in the same sequence as the framework.

Planners can use this action guide to operationalize the Inclusive Healthy Places Framework through research and analysis, engagement and collaboration, plan and policy making, program design and implementation, and project support. See the supplemental workbook for a searchable, sortable itemization of all actions.

This guidebook is available free to all. This project was supported by financial assistance provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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