City Health and Wellbeing - Promo

A city provides opportunities for education, jobs and health care, for example, but is that all there is to a good life? Can good health and well being coexist with economic and business opportunities that are also people-centric, liveable, equitable, sociable, and, maybe even, enjoyable? This is the central question that the folks at SEI (Stockholm Environment Institute), have been poring over. And this is exactly what this podcast called the City Health and Wellbeing podcast intends to understand and share with you. Vishal Mehta, a Senior Scientist at SEI, working in their Davis, California office, who has actually worked on the City Health and Wellbeing Initiative hosts the podcast, and Gokul Chakravarthy is its producer.

Transcript

Gokul Chakravarthy  00:05

If you feel your anxiety rising, just listening to these noises, maybe you're lucky not to be one of those millions of citizens of several fast growing cities around the world, for whom this is such a daily reality that it has gone beyond just the realm of anxiety, they've become numb to it. Living in one city myself, I can safely say, it's not pretty. Noise is one thing, we then also have to reckon with things like air quality, availability of water, getting around,  community spaces, so on and so forth. And those are just manmade factors. Don't even get me started on the natural factors. And we put up with all of this in the ostentatious pursuit of "a better life". But is it really better? Of course, the city provides more opportunities for education, jobs and health care, for example, but is that all there is to a good life? Can good health and well being coexist with economic and business opportunities that are also people-centric, livable, equitable, sociable, and dare I say, enjoyable? This is the central question that the good folks at SEI, or the Stockholm Environment Institute, have been poring over. And this is exactly what this podcast called the City Health and Wellbeing podcast intends to understand and share with you. Vishal Mehta, a Senior Scientist at SEi, working in the Davis, California office, who has actually worked on the City Health and Wellbeing Initiative hosts the podcast, and I, Gokul Chakravarthy, am its producer.