This is a resource hub that was compiled by Helen Pineo. This hub includes files that uses multidisciplinary tools to the planning process in order to ensure the creation of healthy places. In addition to proposals of a new framework, healthy urbanism, the hub also hosts case studies and overviews that engage in an approach […]
Urban Resilience Hub is a UN-Habitat’s technical partners for urban resilience. They help cities increase their resilience by diagnosing the state of their urban system, driving actions, sharing and building knowledge for policy making.
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The course provides strategies to understand and improve the health and wellbeing impacts of urban development through a new conceptual framework called THRIVES. It includes case studies of health-promoting housing and office buildings, large scale urban developments, and green infrastructure projects. The course is aimed at built environment and public health professionals and postgraduate students,
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“Local and regional governments around the world are at the forefront of the COVID-19 crisis, working together with communities and health authorities to mitigate the outbreak while maintaining an orderly functioning of public services in their cities and territories. As local and regional authorities try to address urban issues during and after the crisis, they
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The Excel-based Heat Resilient Cities benefits tool has been designed to help city planners and decision-makers to quantify the health, economic and environmental benefits of common urban heat adaptation actions. Cities can use this information to make the case for urban heat adaptation investments, and to prioritise the actions that are likely to have the
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