A4 – Planning healthy cities: Planetary and human perspectives in urban design

“Nature is not to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic. Our unsustainable interactions with nature have created these conditions.”
Urgent action is needed to redress our unsustainable and unhealthy relationship with nature.
This session will focus on how cities should and could prioritize peoples’ physical and mental health and well-being, through the protection of nature, amplification of nature’s contributions to society (ecosystem services), and food-sensitive urban planning. Following an overarching innovation perspective, it will consider how the WHO’s One Health approach, as well as people-centered and nexus approaches could guide urban design in the future as cities proactively improve resilience and health. A social justice perspective will complement this discussion, with propositions for how community engagement can enrich local decision making and guide urban planning and design for more connected communities.

Esta sesión estará disponible también en español
Cette session sera aussi disponible en français

#Community engagement
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