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Join our webinar: Cities are getting hotter

Join our webinar: Cities are getting hotter

How can cities prepare for more extreme heat? Join USE and Dr Sara Meerow for a practical webinar on seven heat resilience planning principles, with examples from leading cities and tools to support urban heat planning.
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How to protect citizens from the next heat-wave?

How to protect citizens from the next heat-wave?

Heat waves place a lot of citizens at risk of health issues. Barcelona's climate shelter network shows how cities can protect the most vulnerable, using infrastructure they already have.
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Barcelona's Climate Shelters

Barcelona's Climate Shelters

Barcelona has developed a citywide network of climate shelters to protect residents from extreme heat in summer and cold in winter by taking advantage of already existing public and private infrastructure.
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Building Resilient Food Systems in Cape Townicons_use
Cape Town, South Africa

Building Resilient Food Systems in Cape Town

Collaborative governance pathways
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Energy Advice Points
Barcelona (ciudad), Spain

Energy Advice Points

A programme to reduce the number of people at risk of energy poverty.
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Gobabis, Namibia

Community-Driven Housing and Informal Settlement Upgrading

Addressing the urgent informal settlement crisis in Namibia
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Engaging the long term unemployed by greening public spaces and through training
Zagreb, Croatia

Engaging the long term unemployed by greening public spaces and through training

Long term unemployed people work in the city’s public green spaces in exchange for education and training in fields which are in high demand in the local economy.
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Crisis management planning
Berlin, Germany

Crisis management planning

The Berlin Senate Department for Health, Care and Gender Equality ("Senatsverwaltung für Gesundheit, Pflege und Gleichstellung") has developed a model for standardised operational planning for crisis management.
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Cities without Hunger – community gardensicons_use
São Paulo, Brazil

Cities without Hunger – community gardens

The project’s objective is to implement a farming nucleus and satellite agricultural sites to generate urban jobs and skill-building.
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Ghent, Belgium

Emma Moerman

Individual | Student
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Gislaine Santos
Minas Gerais, Brazil

Gislaine Santos

Institution | Núcleo de Engenharia Pública e Resiliência Urbana
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Detlef Cwojdzinski
Berlin, Germany

Detlef Cwojdzinski

Individual | Katastrophenschutzreferent
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Montréal, Canada

Kenny Harrouche

Individual | Urban Planner
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Evandro Holz
Berlin, Germany

Evandro Holz

Individual | Consultant on Urban and International Development
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Daphne Gondhalekar
Munich, Germany

Daphne Gondhalekar

Individual | Urban planning researcher
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