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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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Designing and Implementing Street-Led Citywide Slum Upgrading Programmess: A Training Module Companion

This training module introduces a practical strategy for improvement of streets through citizen participation as a strategic spatial intervention for citywide slum upgrading. The approach fosters incremental improvement of the physical and socioeconomic conditions in slums and informal settlements and promotes urban regeneration, transformation and their integration into the overall city planning agenda. Especially useful

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Promoting non-motorized transport in Asian cities: policymakers’ toolbox

This is a comprehensive briefing and design manual with several practical survey and audit tools. The health focus is improving air quality. However, a shift to cycling and walking will increase physical activity. Contains case studies and options for solutions. The resource is good for auditing and action planning in cities in LMICs that are

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Healthy Built Environments Program. Fact sheets

“The Healthy Built Environments Program prepared a set of five fact sheets that summarise key points from a literature review. These are a set of briefings that show how to move from the evidence to potential planning policy statements. Fact Sheet 1: A guide to “Healthy Built Environments: A Review of the Literature” Fact Sheet

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Ten Principles for Building Healthy Places

The report seeks to address a gap in today’s research on stormwater management approaches. Although much has been written on the topic of green infrastructure and water management, most recent reports focus on stormwater policies or opportunities for capturing stormwater in the public realm. Fewer have focused on implications for private sector real estate developers.

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