Overview | 2022Descriptive resource
Silver Hues: Building Age-Ready Cities. Japan background papers
This report is intended as a policy document that helps articulate the idea of age-readiness while building on the idea of age-friendliness. It highlights the varied trajectories of aging and urbanization and draws on the experiences of older and more urban countries to show how others can become age-ready....
Language(s): EN, Other | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: World Bank
Design Guide, Evidence, Overview | 2021Action oriented | Descriptive resource
RICH Food, Smart City: How Building Reliable, Inclusive, Competitive, and Healthy Food Systems is Smart Policy for Urban Asia
Rich Food, Smart City provides new insights into the status of urban food policy and governance across Asian cities of all sizes and offers concrete illustrations of the many policies and programs that Asia’s cities can learn from and implement to improve food system outcomes. It argues that to effectively...
Language(s): EN, Other | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: World Bank
Briefing, Design Guide, Evidence, Toolkit | 2020Action oriented | Descriptive resource
Primer for Cool Cities: Reducing Excessive Urban Heat—With a Focus on Passive Measures
Cities are getting hotter as a result of growing urbanization and global climate change. The negative impacts of temperature increases are significant and touch nearly every aspect of urban life. Protecting populations from extreme heat is one of the key resiliency and sustainability challenges of the...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: World Bank
Evidence, Overview, Toolkit, Training, Web Resource | Action oriented | Descriptive resource
Planning for Health: Resources for Practitioners
This webpage provides a list of resources for public health practitioners who are interested in further exploring tools, knowledges, and skills that will assist them in incorporating health in the process of urban and territorial planning. The webpage divides the resources into 5 sections, each expliciting...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: The Centre for Active Transportation/ Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
Evidence, Overview, Toolkit | 2019Descriptive resource
Planning for Health: Promising Practices for Healthy Built Environments in Ontario's Public Health Units
This report acts as both a toolkit as well as a compilation of evidence that display how the promising practices of public health units' role in community design process have led to the achivement of better health outcomes. The paper demonstrates the relationship between the built environment's impacts...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: The Centre for Active Transportation/ Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
