UK initiative aiming to encourage green infrastructure and wildlife protection through standards for new developments comes with a user guide that aims to support developers and policy makers. It gives out accreditation to new developments that align with these voluntary standards.
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“Our health – and that of our planet – depends on how cities are designed. Urban life poses challenges that push us to rethink how we plan urban environments. The #CitiesWeWant are cities designed for people: places where we can live well and be healthy. In this interactive report ISGlobal researchers will detail the 5
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“In 2010, at the dawn of this urban world, we published our first joint global report on urban health titled Hidden cities: unmasking and overcoming health inequities in urban settings. The global community was not only waking up to this new demographic reality and the consequent implications for health, society, and economic and political affairs,
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Hush City is a mobile phone application that can be used by citizens to analyse and construct a local sound map with decibel levels and photos to identify, access and evaluate “everyday quiet areas” in neighbourhoods. It can be a useful tool to bring people together to collaborate in baseline mapping and exploring the role
This tool has been developed by Slum Dwellers International, a network of community-based organizations of the urban poor in 32 countries and hundreds of cities and towns across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Know Your City is a global network of knowledge that is owned by the communities it serves and has become the basis
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