1UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast,

Physical activity and the rejuvenation of level behaviour change. We argue that urban regeneration may be conceptualised meaningfully as a complex Tully et al. BMC Public Health 2013, 13:774 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/13/7742Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleintervention comprising multiple components with the potential, individually and interactively, to affect the behaviour of a diverse population. The development and implementation of our comprehensive evaluation framework reflects this complexity and illuminates an approach to the empirical, rigorous evaluation of urban regeneration. More specifically, this study will add to the much needed evidence-base about the impact of urban regeneration on public health as well as having important implications for the development of natural experiment methodology