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Transmedia Storytelling: Activating Urban Learning for Slum Upgrading
By Dr. Catalina Ortiz and Gynna Millan
A research collaboration between The Bartlett DPU staff, UN-Habitat, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Habitat International Coalition (HIC), Cities Alliance, the Municipality of Medellin and six grassroots organisations part of Movimiento de Pobladores and Sandelion – a local transmedia production organisation- to co-design a digital platform that helps to learn about slum upgrading strategies.
Therapy Gardens – Urban Green Space and Better Health
There is an growing body of scholarship that supports the cultivation of green spaces in urban environments as a vital part of healthcare and wellbeing provision in cities and communities (Pearson and Craig 2014; Wyles et al. 2017). According to the constitution of the World Health Organisation health is ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. In other words, it includes both physical and psychological wellbeing.
Crowdsourcing inputs for future impact evaluation? Pilot participatory mapping for liveability and health baselines of a transport-centred project in Cali, Colombia
This blog is part of the health in urban development blog series – the full series can be found at the bottom of this post.
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A Half Full Beirut
One person is forcibly displaced every two seconds in the world and over twenty-five million people are now refugees worldwide as result of conflict.[1] They journey seeking settlement in a place where they can secure livable circumstances.
How and in what ways can local-level risk information about health and disasters influence city government practices and policies?
This blog is the fourth of the health in urban development blog series. View also:
Treat, contain, repeat: key links between water supply, sanitation and urban health
By Pascale Hofmann
Crafts as a way into politics: Chilean arpilleras
Co-authored with Trinidad Avaria
Treat, contain, repeat: key links between water supply, sanitation and urban health
This blog is the third of the health in urban development blog series. View also:
Health in secondary urban centres: Insights from Karonga, Malawi
By Don Brown
The Better to Break and Bleed with: On Research, Violence, and Trauma
NB: This post contains graphic content.
In March 2018, I interviewed a Salvadoran artist who lives in the United States about his work on violence. As we discussed a project, he recounted seeing the body of a teenage girl that had been disinterred, raped, and left on the ground of the cemetery where she had been buried the previous day. “I remember the colour of her dress, the texture of the fluids on her body,” he told me. There was an anguished pause. “I’ve only told my partner, a friend, and you. It’s been years and I still see her.”
The knot at the end of the rope: Violence, hope, and transformation in El Salvador and Mexico
I spent an afternoon in August with a group of young men in a skate park on the outskirts of San Salvador, El Salvador. The park was part of a larger recreational complex and more people drifted in as the hours passed. The day was stifling and even if shade in the park was limited, at least sometimes there was a breeze in the air, unlike inside the low-income housing blocks that ringed the park and the shacks that climbed up the surrounding streets, splintering into a labyrinth of dead-end alleys.
Gaza: Cage Politics, Violence and Health
This blog is the second of the health in urban development blog series. View also:
Health in secondary urban centres: Insights from Karonga, Malawi
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