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This work is part of an extension and investigation project dedicated to studying solutions related to urban, social and economic innovation with the purpose of developing a Health Innovation District (HID). Purposing to define the HID’s intervention area, a group of urban indicators was developed and categorized in four layers: reachness, integrability, use diversity and social validation. This article will explain the first layer: reachness. To achieve this, it aims to appropriate a generic framework that incorporates 1) a Relational Database Management System (PostgreSQL), 2) a Geographic Information System (QGIS) and 3) a CAD software associated to an algorithmic modelator (Rhinoceros3D + Grasshopper3D), associated to computer solutions to assess if the shortest  way possible between the residential lots and the points of interest has an adequate distance.