Urban Planning Well-Being Score

Urban Planning Well-being Score pilot project bridged the gap between urban planners and residents, developing citizen well-being diagnostics. This is an innovative method integrating quantitative physiological and subjective psychological indicators for assessing environments that are not only safe and convenient, but also interesting or pleasant or vice versa, to define environments that are unsafe, stressful, overstimulating, or unattractive. 

​The result is an understanding of citizen well-being and visualization of related spatial parameters as map layers, including guidelines for interpretation and use in city planning workflow. Citizen well-being diagnostics can also be used as an input for solving climate challenges in city planning. Increased well-being in a city, e.g., better human-environment relations, in turn, creates an overall spill-over effect contributing to a secure and mentally, physically, socially, economically healthier city.

City of Narva was the pilot project’s partner and there, the citizen well-being diagnostics served as an additional input for making decisions about the improvements in their living districts to find new options for keeping and attracting citizens and investments.

​​See the service created based on this pilot project “Citizen Well-Being Diagnostics“.

Duration of the pilot project: January 2021 – June 2023
Total budget: 535 000 €, including 443 000 € TalTech budget

The pilot project was funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Estonian Ministry of Research and Education.​