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Urbanscapes

 
About the Urbanscapes Community
 
Urbanscapes aims to foster strong collaboration across different practice areas focused on the challenges of delivering innovative and well-designed urban spaces and places that can serve as catalysts for creating productive, livable, inclusive and vibrant cities. Members share ideas and material related to the following: Public Urban Spaces: the urban spaces within the public realm such as parks, plazas, streets, waterfronts and public buildings; Urban Fabric and Placemaking: the physical environment and their associated economic and social activities; Cityscapes: the city through the broader lens of urban planning, urban design and architecture, which contributes to the overall urban environment and systems; and Streetscapes: the detailed aesthetic and functional design elements of streets and public spaces, including roads, facades, lighting, landscaping, street furniture and pavement etc., that come together to form the character of public spaces.
 
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Healthy Cities: Revisiting the Role of Cities in Promoting Health

  • Country/ City
    World
  • Topic
    Health, Public Spaces, Greening Cities
  • Published On
    October 18, 2023
  • Author(s)
    Hyunji Lee, José Siri, Jonathan Hasoloan, Terri B. Chapman, Maitreyi Bordia Das
  • Abstract
  • Healthy Cities: Revisiting the Role of Cities in Promoting Health

    The Healthy Cities Report aims to provide policymakers and development practitioners with an action-oriented framework for achieving healthy cities. Informed by an extensive literature review, it draws on the wealth of World Bank experience in urban development, citing examples and case studies of healthy city successes and challenges globally. It also recognizes the significant existing global efforts made by other stakeholders and partners on the healthy cities agenda, incorporating these lessons and practices.

Open Spaces for All

  • Topic
    Public Spaces, Urban Planning, Urbanscaping, Landscaping
  • Published On
    December 15, 2022
  • Author(s)
    Open Space Institute
  • Abstract
  • Open Spaces for All

    Open spaces are essential resources for public health and the environment: they provide places for recreation, cultural enrichment, learning, exercise, and relaxation, as well as crucial support for wildlife and habitat, clean air and water, and local economies.
     

Best Practices and Lessons Learned: Tactical Urbanism to Design Cities for People

  • Country/ City
    Asunción, Paraguay
  • Topic
    Sustainable Urban Transport, Urban Planning
  • Published On
    July 01, 2022
  • Author(s)
    UNDP, MADES
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  • Abstract
  • Best Practices and Lessons Learned: Tactical Urbanism to Design Cities for People

    It is estimated that around 600,000 motored vehicles enter the city of Asunción each day, adding a lot of pressure to the already dense traffic. The car-centric design of cities like Asunción, Ñemby and Fernando de la Mora, makes urban mobility uncomfortable and less safe for pedestrians, as well as unfriendly towards more sustainable modes of transportation like bicycles. Interim tactical urbanism interventions can work as means to increase road safety and promote citizen participation.
     

Primer on Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  • Country/ City
    World
  • Topic
    Greenhouse Gases (GHG), Urban Planning, Urbanscaping, Landscaping
  • Published On
    September 14, 2021
  • Author(s)
    Chandan Deuskar, The GAP Fund
  • Abstract
  • Primer on Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    Urban areas are responsible for the majority of GHG emissions. The next several decades will see the construction of a large amount of new urban area globally, which means that there is still an opportunity to encourage low-carbon urban growth.
     

Health-Oriented Micro-Generation in Shanghai

  • Country/ City
    Shanghai / China
  • Published On
    January 19, 2021
  • Author(s)
    The World Bank
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  • Abstract
  • Health-Oriented Micro-Generation in Shanghai

    The pursuit of health and wellbeing is crucial for human society, and has been listed as one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals-SDG 3. Evidence has shown that conditions in the urban built environment have significant impacts on public health, with varying effects on communicable, non-communicable and psychological diseases. Understanding these impacts could better integrate the consideration of health in urban planning and design.
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