Foreword

This report, Built Environment through a Well-Being Lens, draws on the OECD Well-being Framework, to highlight how key components of the built environment (i.e. housing, transport, infrastructure and urban design/land use) interact with different dimensions of well-being and suggests an integrated well-being policy approach for the built environment. It has three chapters. Chapter 1 defines the built environment through a well-being lens and outlines implications for its measurement, leveraging literature, current practice and official data. Chapter 2 describes the state of the built environment and its components in OECD countries and their inter-relationships with well-being and sustainability. Chapter 3 highlights policy examples of an integrated well-being policy approach in the built environment context. This report is intended to “scope” relevant data and existing research in order to lay ground for further work on this issue.

The report was prepared by the OECD’s Centre for Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE). Jihye Lee and Elena Tosetto authored the report, with valuable contributions from the Well-being Data Insights and Policy Practice Unit of WISE. Elena Tosetto also led the statistical work for this publication. Jihye Lee led the project and content editing under the supervision of Carrie Exton, who provided additional editing. The report was published under the direction of Romina Boarini. Martine Zaïda and Anne-Lise Faron coordinated and assisted communications and publishing. Patrick Hamm copy edited the work, and the Korean language translation of the report was prepared by the OECD Translation team.

We are grateful to many colleagues in the OECD and beyond for their help, comments, insights and data, and edits either on draft text or in relation to specific queries. They include, but are not limited to:

• Rudiger Ahrend, Hyunjoon Cho, Marcos Diaz Ramirez, Alexandre Banquet, Soo-Jin Kim, Oscar Huerta Melchor, Ji Soo Yoon, Lorenz Gross, Alexander Lembcke, Claire Hoffmann (OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities);

• Marissa Plouin and Willem Adema (OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate);

• Mariana Mirabile and Sarah Miet (OECD Environment Directorate);

• Boris Cournede (OECD Economics Department);

• Mallory Trouve and Jagoda Egeland (International Transport Forum);

• Bettina Wistrom (OECD Statistics Data Directorate).

The report has benefitted from valuable comments provided by national delegates to the Working Party on Social Policy (WPSP) under the OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee (ELSAC). Their contributions and advice are very gratefully acknowledged. We are also grateful to speakers of the April workshop for their inputs and enthusiasm: Conal Smith, Ana Moreno Monroy, Kyo-Jun Koo and Konstantinos Mouratidis. Finally, we would like to thank the Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) for their support and dedication to this project. Special thanks are extended to Kong Myoung Oh, Hee-Chun Kim, Hyeona Lim, Hyeong-Bin Park, June-Nyeong Choi and Seung-Woo Lee for their continuous and valuable support throughout the project.