Städtebauförderung: ein Instrument zur Finanzierung gesundheitsfördernder Stadtentwicklung?

Health-promoting urban development is a largely voluntary task for any communal administration. Financial scope for such tasks is limited in both cities and municipalities. Hence funding is of pivotal importance, in particular subsidised urban development, which has various subprogrammes (Soziale Stadt, Stadtumbau) with manifold potential for financing health-promoting measures. Across programmes, potential exists especially in the fields of climate protection and adjustment to climate change, promotion of physical activity and mobility in city quarters, creation of green and open spaces, and promotion of participatory processes. Depending on the individual subprogrammes there may be further potential. Sustainable use of urban development funding can ony be made with adequate and long-term financial resources for corresponding programmes and sufficient financial leeway for communities to fund the required co-payments. Since urban development subsidies are confined to investment, both social and integrative measures must be implemented either through complementary partner programmes or by transforming subsidised urban development projects into integrated programmes comprising all measures related to healthpromoting urban development and financed from one single fund.