Initiative, Toolkit | 2017Action oriented | Descriptive resource
The Human Rights in Cities. Handbook Series: Volume I: The Human Rights-Based Approach to Housing and Slum Upgrading
The Handbook advocates for the use of the Human Rights Based Approach in preventive measures (such as the provision of new housing stock and policy) as well as curative interventions (such as the upgrading of slums and informal settlements) in the planning and design, implementation, and the monitoring...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: UN-Habitat
Initiative, Overview | 2017Descriptive resource
Healthy Streets for London: Prioritising walking, cycling and public transport to create a healthy city
"The Healthy Streets Approach provides the framework of policies and strategies we will put in place to achieve this. At a street level, direct investment in our walking, cycling and public transport infrastructure is vital to providing a safer, easier, cleaner and more appealing environment for everyone...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: Transport for London
Evidence, Initiative | 2016Descriptive resource
The Case for Healthy Places: Improving health outcomes through placemaking
"Both the quality and process of placemaking, defined loosely within this publication as a project that occurs in public spaces helping people to feel connected to a place and greater community, has demonstrated physical, mental, and social health benefits. The resource is useful for for health institutions,...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: Project for Public Spaces
Initiative | 2016Action oriented | Descriptive resource
Urban Planning and Design Lab's: tools for integrated and participatory urban planning
Urban planning is a complex process that requires strong political leadership and commitment, and implementable legal frameworks articulated through a common development vision and social participation. It is exactly in the complexity of this process that UN-Habitat founded its in-house Urban Planning...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: UN-Habitat
Initiative | 2014Action oriented | Descriptive resource
Ciclovia Recreativa in Latin America and Open Streets in South Africa.
What started as an initiative in Bogotá, Colombia, then spread to hundreds of towns and cities in many countries. The activity is a time-limited period (weekly and/or on major public holidays) when specific major roads are closed to traffic so that residents have the space for jogging, running, skating,...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: Ciclovía Recreativa/Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
