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Science. Making. Cities. Better.
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The Urban Health Lab produces scientific evidence for the effective design and implementation of health and safety programs via randomized controlled trials, mobile biosensing, space-time metrics, field observation, and community engagement. We rigorously test and seek out city programs that create structural changes to places, are scalable to large populations, and prove to be sustainable over long periods of time.  As we learn of them, we list programs that are scientifically shown to work, with protocols, procedures, and contacts, so that you can Do it in Your City. 


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Neighborhoods Can Shape Success — Down to the Level of a City Block
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Could 'Broken Windows' Policy Reduce Teen Homicide Rates?
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How Cities are Starting to Turn Back Decades of Creeping Urban Blight
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In Town vs. Country, It Turns Out That Cities Are the Safest Places to Live
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Your Commute Could Help You Lose Weight
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UHL team wins the 2017 HHS Green Champion “Good Neighbor” Award​
Read the Press Release
Penn and RTI International submit to MacArthur 100&Change
Watch the video
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Pathways to Urban Sustainability
​from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and 
Medicine
Read the 2017 Report
 DIYC "Do it in Your City"
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Have an exciting urban development program that needs a scientist?
Want to replicate something here in your city? 
Email us.
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​Contact us:  UHS@lists.upenn.edu