ISOCARP’s Review of World Planning Practice (Volume 18), titled “Towards Healthy Cities: Urban Governance, Planning and Design for Human Well-being”, adds to the enormous debate on the role of cities and the phenomenon of urbanisation during the pandemic triggered by the coronavirus. The papers selected for this Review open up different perspectives, some utopian, as it should be when one talks about innovating and changing the city, and others more founded on paths tested in other urban phenomena, such as urban regeneration, the fight against social exclusion, the quest for sustainability, and the design of public spaces.
enCity experts – Heather Banerd, Kimberly Lum, Yerin Hwang, and Pablo Acebillo – weigh in on this conversation in their featured paper entitled “Beyond Liveable: Planning Cities for Wellness.” For the first time in decades, issues of health have become dominant in planning discourse, as our profession recalibrates and examines how we can respond to this new post-pandemic world. In this paper, they share their insights on planning and designing spaces not only for health, through active planning and resilience; but also for wellness, through designing spaces for physical activity, mental resilience and social stability. They explore how the groundwork for wellness can be laid by planning for a proactive city; an active city; and a connected city.
Founded in 1965, the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) is a non-governmental global association of professional city and regional planners with the vision to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable through integrative participatory urban and territorial planning. The ISOCARP Review is their flagship publication, which solicits leading articles about award-winning real-world planning projects to provide solutions to the major challenges of contemporary urban planning.
Link to the publication: https://isocarp.org/product/review-of-world-planning-practice-volume-18-award-for-excellence-towards-healthy-cities-urban-governance-planning-and-design-for-human-well-being/
Editors:
Ana Perić, Switzerland / Serbia
Ali A. Alraouf, Qatar
Jua Cilliers, Australia
ISBN: 978-90-75524-71-0
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