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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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Gamcheon Culture Villageicons_use
Busan, South Korea

Gamcheon Culture Village

A participatory cultural transformation project
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Start Wien – Providing new migrants in Vienna with comprehensive support for their integrationicons_use
Vienna, Austria

Start Wien – Providing new migrants in Vienna with comprehensive support for their integration

New migrants are provided with the most important information about life in Vienna as early as possible in their mother-tongues to help them find their way around the city.
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Banjarmasin Inclusive City Movement
Banjarmasin, Indonesia

Banjarmasin Inclusive City Movement

A multi-stakeholder initiative to promote social inclusion through participatory data collection, placemaking, and community participation
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São Paulo, Brazil

Programa Tô Legal

Empowering informal workers and fostering entrepreneurial growth.
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Glasgow, United Kingdom

OPEN Glasgow – City Data Hub

Glasgow’s City Data Hub is home to 400 datasets, published with support from 60 partner organisations. The data gives citizens and businesses insight into life in their city, and allows them to get more involved in decision making.
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Friends and Neighbours - a community nature project
Cape Town, South Africa

Friends and Neighbours - a community nature project

The project aims to reconnect people with nature, build social capital and maintain and enhance ecosystem services.
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São Paulo, Brazil

Mariana Leila Nascimento Collin

Individual | City manager
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Seoul Solution
Seoul , South Korea

Seoul Solution

Institution | Think Tank
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Safaa Aldwaik
Ramallah, Palestine

Safaa Aldwaik

Individual | Director of GIS & IT / CTO
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Eglė Randytė
Vilnius, Lithuania

Eglė Randytė

Individual | Project Manager
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Martín Carreño Gerardo Ezequiel
Barcelona (área metropolitana), Spain

Martín Carreño Gerardo Ezequiel

Individual | Sustainability expert
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Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy

Ryou

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