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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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Chengdu, China

Urban Green Heart Programme

Ecology Priority and Green Development
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Neighbourhood rehabilitation: community participation - pilot concept
Baghdad, Iraq

Neighbourhood rehabilitation: community participation - pilot concept

The project is based on community participation as a way to improve municipal service delivery in four low-income neighbourhoods
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Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

CO-HATY

Providing emergency homes for displaced people
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BAUinfo Berlin
Berlin, Germany

BAUinfo Berlin

A central construction and renovation information centre in Berlin
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Mandera, Kenya

Mandera Municipality Greening Program

Mandera is evolving into a greener, more comfortable place to live, with trees providing shade and a cooler environment.
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Citizens’ Observatories in Bogota, Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia

Citizens’ Observatories in Bogota, Colombia

Citizens’ Observatories are collaborative spaces where citizens voluntarily participate in a public request and accountability process, based on the implementation of the “District and Local Administration Follow-up Tool”.
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James Macdonald
Barcelona (ciudad), Spain

James Macdonald

Individual | Urban Solar Power + Agritech Consulting
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Dhanesh Chathuranga Delpachithra Arachchige
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Dhanesh Chathuranga Delpachithra Arachchige

Individual | Architect
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Thomas Honeck
Berlin, Germany

Thomas Honeck

Individual | Urban Researcher / Human Geographer / Media Scientist
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Ghent, Belgium

Lovis Somer

Individual
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Alexandra Endara
La Paz, Bolivia

Alexandra Endara

Individual | Consultant
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Bogotá, Colombia

Avantika Raghav

Individual | EDUCATOR
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