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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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Shijiuyang Ecological Wetland for Safe Drinking Water
Jiaxing, China

Shijiuyang Ecological Wetland for Safe Drinking Water

This practice ensures drinking water safety for residents and promotes continuous improvement in ecological and residential environments.
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TransMilenio Bus Rapid Transit System
Bogotá, Colombia

TransMilenio Bus Rapid Transit System

The TransMilenio Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in the city of Bogota, Colombia provides residents with efficient and safe mass transit that encourages high ridership.
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Gothenburg, Sweden

Smart Map: rent, share, exchange, borrow

The city of Gothenburg's Smart Map platform shows residents where they can find things to hire, borrow, share or swap while simultaneously helping to reduce consumption based emissions and create services for the sharing economy.
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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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A Metrocable for community development in the Caracas San Agustin neighbourhood
Caracas, Venezuela

A Metrocable for community development in the Caracas San Agustin neighbourhood

The Caracas Metrocable re-connects a poor hillside neighbourhood with the city focusing on social infrastructure and community development.
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Conversion of a school building to a library in the area of Ostkreuz-Friedrichshain, Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Conversion of a school building to a library in the area of Ostkreuz-Friedrichshain, Berlin

The innovative and sustainable architectural concept applied to the District Central Library has delivered a new cultural meeting point for all generations that contribute to revitalizing the area.
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Zagreb, Croatia

Vesna Helfrih

Individual | LL.B
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Bengaluru, India

Arun Jain

Individual | Urban Designer, Urban Strategist
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Brussels Capital Region, Belgium

Jade Kawan

Individual | Mobilité advisor for Minister Elke Van den Brandt
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Andreas Milionis
Athens, Greece

Andreas Milionis

Individual | Advisor - Consultant
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Hamid Isfahanizadeh
Mashhad, Iran

Hamid Isfahanizadeh

Individual | Director of International Cooperation Office
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Berlin, Germany

Senate Department for Urban Mobility, Transport, Climate Action and the Environment

Institution | Policy officer
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