Les reculs en santé-environnement, crise passagère ou régression durable ?

As part of its work cycle on urban density and health, the Health-Promoting Urban Planning section of the French-speaking Society for Health and Environment organised a contributory workshop focused on the interactions between urban planning, public health, and social dynamics. This workshop provided an opportunity for dialogue, collective reflection, and sharing findings and identified avenues for action. The workshop highlighted that urban planning can no longer be carried out without a cross-cutting approach integrating health, social, and environmental concerns. It also made it possible to advance reflection by collecting experiences and reflections, shedding light on specific themes including physical activity in polluted air, how a strategic and inclusive vision of density can become a strength for European cities, how to support the reconversion of urban and industrial wastelands and the vision of densification, and the conflictual densification of an African capital city. This summary note therefore serves both as a report of the workshop and as an editorial introduction to a thematic dossier on “urban density and health”.