Estimate the life-course associations between different aspects of the urban neighbourhood environment and residential architecture and loneliness using geospatial population-based cohort data totaling over 10,000 individuals followed up for several decades.
Loneliness is a growing public health and urban challenge — highly prevalent across ages and genders, and harmful to both mental and physical health. Research has largely focused on individual and social factors, overlooking the places where people actually live, which are far more amenable to change. LoNePlaces addresses this gap through a multidisciplinary, multi-method study of the Porto Metropolitan Area — over 1.7 million people — through the following specific aims.