International experience on urban planning: Promoting health & environmental sustainability
Sharing international experience on urban planning for promoting health and environmental sustainability
People living in cities around the world face many similar health challenges including air, water and soil pollution, poor housing, traffic congestion and urban impacts on physical activity and diets.
This workshop presents UK and international case studies to explore how some of these health challenges are being tackled through urban design and planning, and how integrated solutions may have benefits for both health and environmental sustainability.
The seminar offers a forum for those working in Local Authorities and academia, public health, planning and architecture, to discuss obstacles and identify economically viable solutions that help deliver health outcomes, sustainability and equity.
Keynote Speakers:
David Burney: Pratt School of Architecture, New York, former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Design and Construction, and Chair of the Centre for Active Design. Promoting health through the design of buildings, streets, and neighbourhoods in New York and internationally.
Clive Sabel: University of Bristol. Health impacts and mitigation priorities of city policies to reduce climate change in Chinese and European cities
Steve Cummins: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Tackling the environmental determinants of obesity in the Healthy Towns programme in England
Laurence Carmichael: WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments, UWE, Bristol. Future policy approaches to health and sustainability- what next for WHO Healthy Cities?
David Ludlow: Department of Architecture and Built Environment, UWE, Bristol. Smart Healthy Cities.
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded interdisciplinary seminar series that explores how public health can contribute to urban planning and the delivery of healthy sustainable communities.
Please register for this free event. Limited spaces are available.
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