Networks and cities' news

Catch up on the latest updates from cities working together in URBACT Networks. The articles and news that are showcased below are published directly by URBACT’s beneficiaries and do not necessarily reflect the programme’s position.

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    Healthy Cities during COVID-19; Accelerating from planning to action

    By Dr.Sebastiaan van Herk, lead expert Healthy Cities, and Sofia Aivalioti, Ad Hoc Expert Healthy Cities

    The COVID-19 pandemic that has sent the world into lockdown has also affected, but not derailed, progress towards building healthier cities. In fact, it’s only under confinement that many people truly took stock of their living environment - their homes, streets and neighbourhoods - and appreciated the value of accessible green spaces. It was also a time to (re)discover the importance of community and collective health: our health depends on the health of others. This places health at the centre of the debate when re-considering the priorities of urban planning. Out of the crisis, cities can build back better with much more support for city policies in greening, mobility and health, that may well have taken years to build up otherwise. In other words, they can work towards becoming a healthy city.

    Estrada Cristina

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  • Healing gardens in hospitals (video)

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

    Viktoria Soos

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  • Green spaces and mental health (video)

    URBACT Good Practice Call 5 Dec 2016 - 31 March 2017

    Viktoria Soos

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  • How to plan healthy cities? (video)

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

    Viktoria Soos

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  • 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 network, built around the potential transfer of an established example of effective city practice or policy.

    Viktoria Soos

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  • Neighbourhood activities in Riga – an effective way for engaging residents in the local community’s activities

    The movement of neighbourhood associations is developing more actively in Riga. Residents of neighbourhoods unite to promote good ideas for improving the environment and quality of life in their neighbourhoods, and they are looking for ways of turning neighbourhoods into attractive venues for public events. We invited for a conversation Inese Auziņa, the board member of one of Riga’s neighbourhood associations – “Rada Brasa” [Brasa Creates].

    z.biteniece

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