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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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Therapeutic Garden
Zagreb, Croatia

Therapeutic Garden

Transforming a brownfield site into a sustainable, inclusive garden for community well-being.
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Cape Town, South Africa

City of Cape Town’s Water Map

The Cape Town Water Map is a novel behaviour-change tool that helped reduce water use during the extreme drought experienced in Cape Town from 2015-2018.
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Montevideo, Uruguay

Enlace

A public co-working space supporting the Social and Solidarity Economy.
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Edinburgh in Bloomicons_use
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh in Bloom

By mobilising support and coordinating action, Edinburgh in Bloom is setting a new standard for conserving and enhancing historic and natural environments in imaginative and sustainable ways.
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Dakar, Senegal

Micro-Gardens in Dakar

Micro-gardening is a form of soilless horticultural production undertaken in small urban spaces, and contributes to the fight against food insecurity in Dakar.
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Kiezblock Komponistenviertel
Berlin, Germany

Kiezblock Komponistenviertel

Re-shaping the local urban environment by prioritising people and sustainability
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Alireza Majorzadehzahiri
Moscow, Russia

Alireza Majorzadehzahiri

Individual | PhD Student
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Western Sydney University
Sydney, Australia

Western Sydney University

Institution | University
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SciTech DiploHub
Barcelona (área metropolitana), Spain

SciTech DiploHub

Institution
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Mollarezaei Shaghayegh
Mashhad, Iran

Mollarezaei Shaghayegh

Individual | University Instructor, businesswoman, communication assistant
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Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Shantanu Chimurkar

Individual | Civil Engineer
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Lomé, Togo

Johnson Afogbe

Individual | Consultants
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