How to plan a healthy city? Indianapolis tracks its vital signs

Indianapolis is making key data sets - or vital signs - acessible to the public, to ensure all citizens and groups are involved in neighbourhood planning. The proliferation of public-private partnerships and NGOs in modern cities can fragment decision-making, and finding a set of data recognised by all stakeholders can be difficult. Indy Vitals draws together one coherent set of metrics, with data like housing values and unemployment rates, which aim to gauge the economic and physical health of the city.