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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 twenty-first century. Successfully implementing measures to cool cities will […]

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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 on health and how public health units

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International Guidelines on Urban Territorial Planning: Report 2018-2020 – Implementing the International Guidelines on Urban Territorial Planning 2018-2020

Although this document provides a broad guidelline on urban territorial planning, the report also contains a chapter on the importance of health integration as part of urban planning. The authors explicitly delineate how the health is collated within the guideline and also provide the readers a case-study of a participatory approach to building a coalition

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Inclusive Healthy Places: A Guide to Inclusion & Health in Public Space: Learning Globally to Transform Locally

A participatory tool for evaluating and creating inclusive, healthy public places that support health equity. This framework supports inclusion to advance health equity through public spaces. The framework is built around four guiding principles for shaping and assessing public space projects. Only one principle addresses physical space, reflecting the need for practitioners to look beyond

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Implementing the International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning for improved health and well-being

This report collates the suggestions put forth by various urban health organizations on how to organize coordinated actions to incorporate health actors and implications in urban planning and development. The report emphasizes on the importance of adopting a systems approach to understanding urban-health challenges and provides examples of pilot projects which display evidence of urban

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