Academics – UN Habitat

The Built Environment: Understanding how physical environments influence the health and well-being of First Nations peoples living on-reserve

This study provides an overview of the role played by Indigenous design knowledge in community planning. In addition, the paper explores and compiles what is known about the built environment influences the health and well-being of First Nations reserve communities. Through five areas—housing, water and waste management, food security, active living, and transportation—this paper examines […]

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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. It is intended for cities and

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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 mitigate food-related risks and climate

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Healthy Urbanism

This is a resource hub that was compiled by Helen Pineo. This hub includes files that uses multidisciplinary tools to the planning process in order to ensure the creation of healthy places. In addition to proposals of a new framework, healthy urbanism, the hub also hosts case studies and overviews that engage in an approach

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Healthy Urbanism Training Course

The course provides strategies to understand and improve the health and wellbeing impacts of urban development through a new conceptual framework called THRIVES. It includes case studies of health-promoting housing and office buildings, large scale urban developments, and green infrastructure projects. The course is aimed at built environment and public health professionals and postgraduate students,

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