Design Guide, Initiative, Overview | 2024Action Oriented, Destructive resources
Climate action guide for urban planners
This guide will support urban planners from cities around the world to play their full part in tackling the climate crisis. The guide illustrates the importance of urban planning as a solution to rising climate challenges, with urban planners’ decisions defining cities’ capacities to meet climate...
Language(s): EN, SPA, FRE, ARABIC, PORTUGUESE | Geographic Scope: Region, Country, City | Author/Publisher: C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
Briefing, Initiative | 2022Descriptive Resources
School streets to shape child friendly cities
School Street initiatives are one of many strategies that can help our cities to become more inclusive, sensitive and sustainable in a moment where tangible action is of utmost importance. This brief explores 6 key benefits that School Streets provide, and provides 6 key considerations for their successful...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: Lucas Snaije & Daniela Abril Gutierrez, BYCS and Clean Cities Campaing
Design Guide, Initiative, Overview | 2021Action Oriented, Descriptive Resources
Strengthening the human infrastructure of cycling
This white paper highlights the benefits of cycling promotion measures and presents key learnings from successful initiatives in order for them to be further considered and prioritised by cities and regions as they implement cycling strategies. It uses the framework of “human infrastructure” to...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Region, Country, City | Author/Publisher: Lucas Snaije, BYCS
Evidence, Initiative | 2023Descriptive resource
Tracking urban health policies: a conceptual framework with special focus on air pollution in African cities
This is a guide for establishing and developing urban primary health centers (UPHCs) according to India’s National Health Mission framework, and using public-private partnership (PPP) arrangements with nongovernment organizations. It can be used by all states, regardless of where they are in the development...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: WHO
Initiative, Overview | 2021Action oriented
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...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: UN-Habitat
