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  • Participatory budgeting for improving greenspaces

    Participatory budgeting is an opportunity of engaging citizens in greenspace design. Our partner cities Poznan and Tartu show you how.

  • Escape from the city noise: Limerick's Hush City approach

    Noise isn't new - around 600 BC roasters and tinsmiths were banned in Sybaris, Greece because of their noise. Fast forward to our time and you find that noise pollution is an issue that still needs to

  • Health & Greenspace Baseline Study

    Read the Baseline Study for the Health & Greenspace Network!

  • Impacts of Green Spaces on Physical and Mental Health - Thematic Report

    The first thematic report of the Health&Greenspace report is ready!

    The report gives you an overview of the general context of how green spaces effect mental and physical health and was put together by

  • General impacts of green spaces on physical and mental health (video)

    In early 2014 URBACT launched a suite of pilot transfer networks to explore a new way to support peer-to-peer learning amongst cities. The aim was to test the feasibility of a new type of URBACT
  • How to plan healthy cities? (video)

    How to plan healthy cities? What is a healthy city? How does human health relate to planetary health?

  • Green spaces and mental health (video)

    URBACT Good Practice Call 5 Dec 2016 - 31 March 2017
  • Healing gardens in hospitals (video)

    What benefits do healing gardens and therapeutic gardens have in hospitals?

  • How to communicate environmental/climate issues effectively?

    Health&Greenspace Action Planning Network member cities are planning effective and engaging communication for the 2nd phase. Here are a few pieces of valuable advice they can share with you.