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The Healthy City Design Awards 2025 celebrate and recognise professional and research excellence in the design and planning of healthy and sustainable cities and communities around the world.

The Call for Entries will launch in July.

View the HCD2024 Awards Winners

Recognising excellence in the design and planning of healthy and sustainable cities and communities

The Healthy City Design Awards recognise innovation and excellence in conceptualising, planning, designing and delivering places and infrastructure in the urban built environment that create human health and wellbeing, and embed the principles of planetary health and sustainable development.

The suite of eight awards is structured to encourage submissions in categories that span the micro, meso and macro levels of city design and planning. These encompass design for healthy homes and workplaces, neighbourhoods, placemaking, transport and mobility, social infrastructure, city-wide developments and, finally, the contribution of the research community to advancing knowledge in this field.

The awards aim to celebrate projects, schemes and research which offer novel and well- considered means to positively impact on the physical and mental health and wellbeing of urban populations, through improvements to environmental factors, opportunities for physical activity,

cleaner air, greater community agency and participation, climate resilience, diversity, equity and inclusion, and an improved quality of life for citizens of all ages.

The awards are also underpinned by the guiding principles of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly in respect of progress towards good health and wellbeing, sustainable urban development, climate action, responsible consumption and strong partnership working.

Comprising eight categories across various aspects of urban health, planning and design, the awards celebrate excellencein innovation, sustainable development, health equity, social value and community impact. Each category highlights outstanding contributions from professionals dedicated to creating healthier and more liveable and resilient cities. The awards are presented at an illustrious ceremony during the final session of the Congress, and streamed online for delegates to view remotely around the world.

Prof Jeremy Myerson
Prof Jeremy Myerson
Co-founder, Healthy City Design; director, WORKTECH Academy; professor emeritus, Royal College of Art, UK
Marc Sansom MBA
Marc Sansom MBA
Managing director, SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange, UK

Judging process and timetable

July 2025

Awards Call for Entries launched

4 September 2025

Deadline for Awards entries

8-19 September

Judging phase 1: Evaluation and shortlisting of submissions by judging panel

23 September

Shortlist announcement: The shortlisted submissions are notified and invited to register their participation in the Congress to present their project live to the judges and in Poster format

14-15 October 2025

Shortlisted projects invited to present live to the judges at HCD2025. Presentations will be filmed and recorded

15 October 2025

Awards ceremony in final session of the 9th Healthy City Design 2025 Congress

October-November 2025

Publication of award winners on Healthy City Design website, and via press announcements in local, national, professional and social media channels

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