SALUS.Global is partnering with Cities & Health and seeks contributions for the Healthy City Design Congress special issue Urban renewal and health equity through resilience and regeneration. The special issue provides opportunities for both academic exposure, practitioner impact, and policy insight. See Healthy City Design Congress 2023 for full congress details.
Evidence shows us that, in towns and cities all over the world, local living environments frequently detract from population health and planetary health; whilst also exacerbating health inequities. However, many communities, practitioners, policy-makers and researchers are charting a more healthy and sustainable path for urban lives. One opportunity is through focusing on measures that improve local resilience. However, there is no one-size-fits-all approach either locally or globally.
Urban policymakers, planners and practitioners are keen to activate measures that improve the lives of citizens and reduce health inequalities while, at the same time, addressing the wider considerations of planetary health. As such, health equity calls to social, economic and environmental justice.
As we strive toward making robust and lasting change, we pose the following questions for contributors to consider:
- Is collaboration the way forward for urban renewal and resilience?
- How can we chart our path towards more resilient cities using city planning and design as our tool?
- Do we have models charting both a healthy and a sustainable path? If so, what are the implications for health equity?
- Can we discern emergent soft, or hard, technologies that might provide the robust solutions we require?
We would especially like authors working in this area to use this special issue to share their personal experiences and their challenges.
