Civil Society – Page 7 – UN Habitat

Urban green spaces and health – a review of evidence

This report summarizes the available evidence of beneficial effects of urban green spaces, such as improved mental health, reduced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, obesity and risk of type 2 diabetes, and improved pregnancy outcomes. Mechanisms leading to these health benefits include psychological relaxation and stress alleviation, increased physical activity, reduced exposure to air pollutants, noise […]

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Healthy Community Implementation Toolbox

“Overview of how various policy tools (i e zoning codes, design guidelines, building codes etc) can be used to improve community health. Specific to Los Angeles but applicable in the more general context too. This resource can be useful for a wide variety of users that have the potential to address community health. For example,

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Gentrification & Neighborhood change. Helpful Tools for Communities

This toolkit argues that it is possible to have development without displacement and shows how to achieve this. Published as a supplement to The socioeconomic change of Chicago’s community areas (1970–2010), the toolkit presents strategies for addressing the pressures of gentrification in a community during different phases of gentrification: before it happens, as it is

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Guiding Principles for City Climate Action Planning

Sets out guiding principles for climate action planning on the city-level, along with guiding steps for the planning process and case examples. Fairly comprehensive and sets out examples related to both health and UTP, but is not focused on either. The Guiding Principles are aimed primarily at city-level actors. They provide a common reference point

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Principles for Healthy and Sustainable Places

“The United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) has distilled the big ideas of today’s Urban Thinkers into a document summarizing key principles which can guide the creation of healthy and sustainable human settlements. The document presents full descriptions of each principle, re-thinking traditional ways of working and living, and approaching old issues

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