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
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
Design Guide, Overview | 2021Descriptive Resources, Action Oriented
Healthy space next door: a toolkit for healthy community design
Exercise improves our physical and mental health. We are all well aware of this. Yet, only a handful of us incorporate exercise into our daily routine, mostly because our willpower struggles to compete with unavoidable obstacles to engaging in fun physical activities. A long commute from our house to...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: City | Author/Publisher: WHO SEARO
Evidence, Overview, Toolkit | 2022Action oriented
Urban design for health: inspiration for the use of urban design to promote physical activity and healthy diets in the WHO European Region
This report reflects on the ways in which urban space design plays a critical role in determininig the occurrence of non-communicable diseases. The paper initially highlights ways in which this occurs and then follows by raising tools and frameworks that encourage physical activity and healthy eating...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: WHO
Overview | 2022Action oriented
The Global Urban Monitoring Framework
The Global Urban Monitoring Framework is the harmonization of existing urban indices and tools, and allows for the integration of various dimensions of urban development. This also includes the measurement of progress in health in urban areas at different urban scales and areas—thereby allowing individuals...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: UN-Habitat
