- Primers
- 30
- Livable Cities dimensions
- 5
- Authors
- 10
The Livable Cities model
- People at the center What residents are able to be and do.
- Three kinds of sustainability Social, environmental, and economic.
- Five dimensions What a livable neighborhood provides. Select one to read its primers.
The Livable Cities model was developed by Lindsay J. Thompson and Richard G. Milter at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.
Primers by dimension
Contents
The primers
30 short primers, in five chapters of the Livable Cities model.
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Sustainable Habitat
7 primers
Housing, energy, transportation, and broadband: the physical conditions households live with every day.
- 01 Geothermal Energy and the Social Determinants of Health
- 02 Getting There: Transportation as the Cost of Access to Work, Care, and Food
- 03 The Energy Burden Map: Who Pays the Most, and Why It Tracks Health
- 04 The Foundation Under Everything: Housing Affordability and the Cost of Instability
- 05 The New Utility: Broadband as the Infrastructure of Opportunity
- 06 Weatherization as Preventive Medicine
- 07 Who Owns the Community Microgrid? Energy as Governed Infrastructure
02
Healthy People
6 primers
Community health workers, health data standards, and the conditions that shape health outside the clinic.
- 01 Cooling Is the New Heating: Heat, Health, and the Air-Conditioning Gap
- 02 Counting What Counts: Standardizing the Data Behind the Social Determinants of Health
- 03 Power Reliability as Clinical Infrastructure
- 04 Speaking the Same Language: Common Data Models and the Promise of Shared Evidence
- 05 The Generative City Is a Healthy City: Designing Places That Keep Producing Health
- 06 The Trusted Bridge: Community Health Workers and the Infrastructure of Trust
03
Cohesive Communities
6 primers
Partnerships, coalitions, and community control over the work done in a neighborhood.
- 01 Closer to the Ground: Country Ownership and the Remaking of Global Partnership
- 02 Many Hands, One Map: Civic Coalitions and the Discipline of Shared Measurement
- 03 Partners, Not Subjects: When Institutions and Communities Work as Equals
- 04 The Power to Stay: Community Control When Neighborhoods Change
- 05 The Work Between Organizations: Coordination as Its Own Infrastructure
- 06 What Communities Keep: Governed Knowledge and the Afterlife of Health Projects
04
Engaged Citizens
6 primers
Civic participation, community data governance, and public oversight of shared technology.
- 01 A Seat at the Table: Civic Participation as Health Infrastructure
- 02 Accountable by Design: AI Infrastructure in the Public Interest
- 03 Built to Last: Stewardship and the Digital Commons
- 04 Knowing Their Own Ground: Community Data and the Power to Govern a Neighborhood
- 05 The Code Beneath Everything: Open Source as Public Infrastructure
- 06 The Fine Print Decides: Governance and Procurement as Infrastructure Policy
05
Inclusive Prosperity
5 primers
Cost of living, financing that outlasts a grant cycle, and innovation that keeps value in public hands.
- 01 A City That Keeps Giving Back: Generative Cities and the Cost of Living
- 02 Aligned but Unequal: Governing Partnerships Across the Public-Private Divide
- 03 Funding That Holds: Blended Financing and the Problem of the Funding Cliff
- 04 Innovation That Serves: How Public-Interest Innovation Differs From the Commercial Kind
- 05 Speaking to Each Other: Open Standards and the Case Against Lock-In