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The community environment clearly has a large influence on child development, but exactly which factors are most important? Tracey Nearmy/AAP

Working out what makes a good community where young children can thrive

Sharon Goldfeld, The University of Melbourne; Billie Giles-Corti, RMIT University; Geoffrey Woolcock, University of Southern Queensland; Hannah Badland, RMIT University; Ilan Katz, UNSW ; Karen Villanueva, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Robert Tanton, University of Canberra, and Sally Brinkman, The Kids Research Institute Australia

Research has started to identify the key factors in creating communities that promote good early childhood development.
Good access to people, services and other essential ingredients of wellbeing is a defining feature of liveable communities. flickr/US Department of Agriculture

How do we create liveable cities? First, we must work out the key ingredients

Melanie Davern, RMIT University; Billie Giles-Corti, The University of Melbourne; Carolyn Whitzman, The University of Melbourne, and Hannah Badland, The University of Melbourne

Communities that rate highly for liveability share certain essential features. We can identify and build these key ingredients into our cities to create thriving places where people want to live.

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