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Can urban regeneration improve health resilience in a changing climate? Lessons from Indonesia

“Solid background and foundation lessons for practitioners: * Assessment of the extent that urban regeneration, in particular housing for low-income groups, is being considered as an adaptation option in Indonesian cities * Exploration of the potential challenges and outcomes in using urban regeneration, particularly housing construction for low-income groups, as an adaptation strategy for enhancing […]

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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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Urban mobility plans. National approaches and local practice. Moving towards strategic, sustainable and inclusive urban transport planning. Sustainable urban transport technical document #13.

Urban mobility plans are used as a planning tool and policy instrument to guide the development of transport in urban areas and surroundings. This document reviews urban mobility planning from several countries, showing a shift away from the traditional, infrastructure-oriented approach towards sustainable and people-oriented planning. National guidelines for urban mobility planning provide orientation to

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Streets as tools for urban transformation in slums: A street-led approach to citywide slum upgrading

The focus is on the streets and urban layout of settlements, as the drivers of transformation and regeneration. It reviews citizens’ involvement in participatory planning and re-emphasises the importance of mapping through participatory enumeration and locally acceptable forms of social and physical mapping. It covers: basic infrastructure provision, e.g. water supply, sanitation, drainage; land allocation

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The Urban Health Index: A handbook for its calculation and use

In depth guide to statistical calculations for Urban Health Index and the reasoning behind them. Subtitled ‘A VERSATILE APPROACH TO MEASURING AND MAPPING HEALTH INEQUALITIES’. The UHI provides a flexible approach to selection, amalgamation, and presentation of health data. Its purpose is to furnish visual, graphical, and statistical insight into various health indicators and health

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