Pub Date : 2022-07-28DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2022.2086373
Lídia Maria de Oliveira Morais, Paula Guevara-Aladino, Roxana Valdebenito, Natalia Díaz, Katherine Indvik, O. Sarmiento, Alejandra Vives Vergara, A. Friche, Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa
Translating research results into policy and practice is essential for building healthier urban environments. This is a complex and challenging process requiring trust, understanding, and shared motivations across sectors and actor groups to establish safe spaces for experiences and ideas exchange. Recently, members of the Urban Health in Latin America Network convened a group of researchers, decision-makers, and local community members from Brazil, Chile, and Colombia to discuss three urban transformation interventions. The event ‘Urban transformations, community participation, and health: Lessons from Brazil, Chile, and Colombia’ was held virtually on September 2, 2021. We argue that this experience provided an innovative opportunity for capacity-building, establishing new connections between diverse stakeholders in Latin America, and supporting urban health research translation in the region. The discussion highlighted the importance of including both decision-makers and community members in urban health research, to advance decision-makers and community members’ understanding of the complexity of urban contexts, and to inform the research process. We hope this experience will inspire similar cross-sectoral dialogues that can broaden research practice and agendas and support knowledge translation to inform urban interventions and their evaluations to promote health and sustainability.
{"title":"Urban transformations, community participation, and health: inter-sectoral and cross-country learning experience between Brazil, Chile, and Colombia","authors":"Lídia Maria de Oliveira Morais, Paula Guevara-Aladino, Roxana Valdebenito, Natalia Díaz, Katherine Indvik, O. Sarmiento, Alejandra Vives Vergara, A. Friche, Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2022.2086373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2022.2086373","url":null,"abstract":"Translating research results into policy and practice is essential for building healthier urban environments. This is a complex and challenging process requiring trust, understanding, and shared motivations across sectors and actor groups to establish safe spaces for experiences and ideas exchange. Recently, members of the Urban Health in Latin America Network convened a group of researchers, decision-makers, and local community members from Brazil, Chile, and Colombia to discuss three urban transformation interventions. The event ‘Urban transformations, community participation, and health: Lessons from Brazil, Chile, and Colombia’ was held virtually on September 2, 2021. We argue that this experience provided an innovative opportunity for capacity-building, establishing new connections between diverse stakeholders in Latin America, and supporting urban health research translation in the region. The discussion highlighted the importance of including both decision-makers and community members in urban health research, to advance decision-makers and community members’ understanding of the complexity of urban contexts, and to inform the research process. We hope this experience will inspire similar cross-sectoral dialogues that can broaden research practice and agendas and support knowledge translation to inform urban interventions and their evaluations to promote health and sustainability.","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"307 1","pages":"59 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79889348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-28DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2022.2102372
S. Danielli, Emile Radyte, P. Donnelly, T. Coffey, H. Ashrafian, A. Darzi
ABSTRACT Global health will increasingly be determined by cities and therefore city-wide transformation of health and care is crucially important. Reflections from our experiences in London suggest some critical ingredients for city-wide transformation, including: having a shared aim; robust engagement with the citizens, service users and providers of services; setting aside organisational priorities and effective incentives to do so; a focus on enablers; strong city-wide leadership. Rather than working ‘together but separately’, health and care partners must work ‘together, together’ if cities are to meet the health and care challenges of the next decade.
{"title":"Improving health in London: reflections from three mini case studies (HIV, mental health, healthcare estate)","authors":"S. Danielli, Emile Radyte, P. Donnelly, T. Coffey, H. Ashrafian, A. Darzi","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2022.2102372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2022.2102372","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Global health will increasingly be determined by cities and therefore city-wide transformation of health and care is crucially important. Reflections from our experiences in London suggest some critical ingredients for city-wide transformation, including: having a shared aim; robust engagement with the citizens, service users and providers of services; setting aside organisational priorities and effective incentives to do so; a focus on enablers; strong city-wide leadership. Rather than working ‘together but separately’, health and care partners must work ‘together, together’ if cities are to meet the health and care challenges of the next decade.","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"61 1","pages":"312 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87024915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-22DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2022.2091339
J. Speake, Maria Pentaraki
ABSTRACT In this paper, we reflect on the changes to cityscapes during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus specifically on the relationships between COVID-19 communication, which took place via advertisements and messages located in urban spaces, and contemporary neoliberal politics. Particular attention is given to on-street official government public health communications and their visual impacts and wider socio-economic implications, exemplified through the lens of Belfast, Northern Ireland. We reflect on, first the transitions from pre-pandemic to pandemic streetscape signage and messages, secondly ephemerality in streetscapes under COVID-19 conditions, thirdly the rapidity of change in COVID-19 related public health signage and messages and finally structural constraints of COVID-19 related public health signage. This messaging has also made visible government responses to the pandemic and revealed official (re)emergent concerns (or lack of) for people’s health and well-being.
{"title":"COVID-19, city centre streetscapes, and public health signage","authors":"J. Speake, Maria Pentaraki","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2022.2091339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2022.2091339","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, we reflect on the changes to cityscapes during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus specifically on the relationships between COVID-19 communication, which took place via advertisements and messages located in urban spaces, and contemporary neoliberal politics. Particular attention is given to on-street official government public health communications and their visual impacts and wider socio-economic implications, exemplified through the lens of Belfast, Northern Ireland. We reflect on, first the transitions from pre-pandemic to pandemic streetscape signage and messages, secondly ephemerality in streetscapes under COVID-19 conditions, thirdly the rapidity of change in COVID-19 related public health signage and messages and finally structural constraints of COVID-19 related public health signage. This messaging has also made visible government responses to the pandemic and revealed official (re)emergent concerns (or lack of) for people’s health and well-being.","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"52 1","pages":"585 - 601"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83216102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-22DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2022.2099673
C. Camponeschi
ABSTRACT Cities are on the frontline of the climate crisis and, as such, are poised to experience more frequent and severe climate-related disruptions including heat waves, floods, and epidemics. The personal and societal costs of these threats will only escalate as the effects of climate change continue to be felt more acutely, yet municipal action plans currently lack comprehensive indicators for tracking their impact on human health and wellbeing. In response to this gap, this paper proposes an integrative approach to urban resilience that is premised on: 1) a bioecological reading of vulnerability; 2) a trauma-informed approach to climate planning; and 3) a ‘healing justice’ orientation to policymaking. Informed by the cases of New York City and Copenhagen, it offers theoretical and policy contributions not only to the process of building resilience to climate change in cities, but to many other contexts where disaster and health emergencies, systemic risk mitigation, and community empowerment are concerned.
{"title":"Toward integrative resilience: a healing justice and trauma-informed approach to urban climate planning","authors":"C. Camponeschi","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2022.2099673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2022.2099673","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Cities are on the frontline of the climate crisis and, as such, are poised to experience more frequent and severe climate-related disruptions including heat waves, floods, and epidemics. The personal and societal costs of these threats will only escalate as the effects of climate change continue to be felt more acutely, yet municipal action plans currently lack comprehensive indicators for tracking their impact on human health and wellbeing. In response to this gap, this paper proposes an integrative approach to urban resilience that is premised on: 1) a bioecological reading of vulnerability; 2) a trauma-informed approach to climate planning; and 3) a ‘healing justice’ orientation to policymaking. Informed by the cases of New York City and Copenhagen, it offers theoretical and policy contributions not only to the process of building resilience to climate change in cities, but to many other contexts where disaster and health emergencies, systemic risk mitigation, and community empowerment are concerned.","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"248 1","pages":"960 - 973"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76755061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-21DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2022.2095881
Charlotte Hennah, G. Ellis, M. Doumas
ABSTRACT Physical activity is critical for older adults’ health and was particularly important during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. To slow the spread of COVID-19, built environment modifications were introduced in public spaces including one-way walking systems, social distancing, and the restricted use of public toilets and seating. These modifications intended to encourage safe exercise but may have reduced walkability and inadvertently hindered older adults’ physical activity. We aimed to investigate whether Covid-related built environment modifications reduced older adults’ physical activity. We surveyed 282 older adults in the UK using a mixed methods Concurrent Triangulation Design. Physical activity decreased during COVID-19. Older adults believed many Covid-related built environment modifications negatively affected physical activity because of safety or accessibility issues. These negative modifications were more prominent in areas of higher walkability and associated with reduced physical activity. However Covid-related Traffic Reduction and some elements of One-Way Walking Systems were largely considered positive modifications that helped facilitate physical activity. We concluded common Covid-related built environment modifications hindered exercise, reduced walkability, and possibly contributed to reduced physical activity in older adults. If similar modifications are required in the future, older adults’ needs must be accommodated to avoid discouraging physical activity and compromising long-term health.
{"title":"Impact of COVID-19 on neighbourhood physical activity in older adults","authors":"Charlotte Hennah, G. Ellis, M. Doumas","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2022.2095881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2022.2095881","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Physical activity is critical for older adults’ health and was particularly important during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. To slow the spread of COVID-19, built environment modifications were introduced in public spaces including one-way walking systems, social distancing, and the restricted use of public toilets and seating. These modifications intended to encourage safe exercise but may have reduced walkability and inadvertently hindered older adults’ physical activity. We aimed to investigate whether Covid-related built environment modifications reduced older adults’ physical activity. We surveyed 282 older adults in the UK using a mixed methods Concurrent Triangulation Design. Physical activity decreased during COVID-19. Older adults believed many Covid-related built environment modifications negatively affected physical activity because of safety or accessibility issues. These negative modifications were more prominent in areas of higher walkability and associated with reduced physical activity. However Covid-related Traffic Reduction and some elements of One-Way Walking Systems were largely considered positive modifications that helped facilitate physical activity. We concluded common Covid-related built environment modifications hindered exercise, reduced walkability, and possibly contributed to reduced physical activity in older adults. If similar modifications are required in the future, older adults’ needs must be accommodated to avoid discouraging physical activity and compromising long-term health.","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"33 1","pages":"666 - 676"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89105386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2021.1979759
G. McCormack, Autumn Nesdoly, Dalia Ghoneim, Tara-Leigh F. McHugh
ABSTRACT Academics use ‘walkability’, ‘healthy’, ‘bikeability’, ‘vibrancy’, and ‘livability’ to describe neighbourhood design that support health and wellbeing. These labels are communicated in the media and real estate and land development marketing materials, yet residents may not use these labels when describing their neighbourhoods. Our qualitative study explored recent homebuyers’ and residential land developers’ perceptions of these neighbourhood design labels. Twelve land developers (7 men; 5 women) and twelve homebuyers (7 men; 5 women) from three major cities (Calgary, Edmonton, and Lethbridge) in Alberta, Canada, completed semi-structured telephone-interviews. Interview transcripts underwent content analysis. Land developers and homebuyers shared common perspectives of these labels, which had similarities with academic definitions. Participants described walkability as: (a) ease of movement, (b) contextual differences, and (c) connections; healthy as: (a) opportunities for activity, and (b) diversity; bikeability as: (a) supportive infrastructure, and (b) differing preferences; vibrancy as: (a) matches peoples’ values, and (b) supportive built features; and livability as: (a) all encompassing, and (b) safe and friendly. The features described were not mutually exclusive to any one-neighbourhood label. Our findings suggest that walkable and bikeable neighbourhoods are not necessarily vibrant or livable, nevertheless walkability, bikeability, vibrancy, and livability are qualities of a healthy neighbourhood.
{"title":"‘Cul-de-sacs make you fat’: homebuyer and land developer perceptions of neighbourhood walkability, bikeability, livability, vibrancy, and health","authors":"G. McCormack, Autumn Nesdoly, Dalia Ghoneim, Tara-Leigh F. McHugh","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2021.1979759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2021.1979759","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Academics use ‘walkability’, ‘healthy’, ‘bikeability’, ‘vibrancy’, and ‘livability’ to describe neighbourhood design that support health and wellbeing. These labels are communicated in the media and real estate and land development marketing materials, yet residents may not use these labels when describing their neighbourhoods. Our qualitative study explored recent homebuyers’ and residential land developers’ perceptions of these neighbourhood design labels. Twelve land developers (7 men; 5 women) and twelve homebuyers (7 men; 5 women) from three major cities (Calgary, Edmonton, and Lethbridge) in Alberta, Canada, completed semi-structured telephone-interviews. Interview transcripts underwent content analysis. Land developers and homebuyers shared common perspectives of these labels, which had similarities with academic definitions. Participants described walkability as: (a) ease of movement, (b) contextual differences, and (c) connections; healthy as: (a) opportunities for activity, and (b) diversity; bikeability as: (a) supportive infrastructure, and (b) differing preferences; vibrancy as: (a) matches peoples’ values, and (b) supportive built features; and livability as: (a) all encompassing, and (b) safe and friendly. The features described were not mutually exclusive to any one-neighbourhood label. Our findings suggest that walkable and bikeable neighbourhoods are not necessarily vibrant or livable, nevertheless walkability, bikeability, vibrancy, and livability are qualities of a healthy neighbourhood.","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"46 1","pages":"765 - 776"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91040530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2022.2150460
M. Grant, M. Franco
SUPPORTING CITY KNOW-HOW Human health and planetary health are influenced by city lifestyles, city leadership, and city development. For both, worrying trends have lead to increasing concern, and it is imperative that these become core foci for urban policy. This will require concerted action; the journal Cities & Health is dedicated to supporting the flow of knowledge, in all directions, to help make this happen. We wish to foster communication between researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, communities, and decision-makers in cities. This is the purpose of the City Know-how section of the journal. We, and our knowledge partners, the International Society for Urban Health and Salus.Global invite you to join these conversations with the authors and communities directly, and also, we hope, by publishing in Cities & Health.
{"title":"Research for city practice","authors":"M. Grant, M. Franco","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2022.2150460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2022.2150460","url":null,"abstract":"SUPPORTING CITY KNOW-HOW Human health and planetary health are influenced by city lifestyles, city leadership, and city development. For both, worrying trends have lead to increasing concern, and it is imperative that these become core foci for urban policy. This will require concerted action; the journal Cities & Health is dedicated to supporting the flow of knowledge, in all directions, to help make this happen. We wish to foster communication between researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, communities, and decision-makers in cities. This is the purpose of the City Know-how section of the journal. We, and our knowledge partners, the International Society for Urban Health and Salus.Global invite you to join these conversations with the authors and communities directly, and also, we hope, by publishing in Cities & Health.","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"10 1","pages":"657 - 666"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73156832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2022.2143740
M. Franco, A. D. Diez Roux, U. Bilal
Today, cities continue to capture the world´s many challenges: escalating income inequality, racial and country of origin divisions, environmental pollution, emergent infectious disease contagion, and unsus-tainable growth that ignores the climate crisis . . . Today, we know cities as places that can both threaten and promote health.
{"title":"Challenges and opportunities for urban health research in our complex and unequal cities","authors":"M. Franco, A. D. Diez Roux, U. Bilal","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2022.2143740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2022.2143740","url":null,"abstract":"Today, cities continue to capture the world´s many challenges: escalating income inequality, racial and country of origin divisions, environmental pollution, emergent infectious disease contagion, and unsus-tainable growth that ignores the climate crisis . . . Today, we know cities as places that can both threaten and promote health.","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"57 1","pages":"651 - 656"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74205446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-22DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2022.2084589
Miguel Padeiro
ABSTRACT Inequity of access to the cycling network may reinforce social disparities in health and access to resources and opportunities. This study aims to examine whether the area-level material deprivation index is associated with different levels of accessibility to Lisbon’s (i) cycling network and (ii) bike-sharing docking stations network. Independent t-tests were implemented, and regression models were performed to estimate the associations of the multiple deprivation index with each dependent bike lane and bike-sharing docking station variable, adjusting for covariates. The results confirm the hypothesis of a significant difference between the most and least deprived areas in terms of the presence of bike lanes and bike-sharing stations as well as in terms of coverage, distance, and connectivity of the both infrastructures. When covariates are controlled, a higher index of material deprivation is associated with (i) a lower presence of, greater distance to, and lower coverage of bike-sharing docking stations; and (ii) is not associated with the presence of, distance to, connectivity of, and coverage of cycle lane networks. Based on these findings, efforts should be directed to increase access to bike lanes and bike-sharing systems to more deprived areas.
{"title":"Cycling infrastructures and equity: an examination of bike lanes and bike sharing system in Lisbon, Portugal","authors":"Miguel Padeiro","doi":"10.1080/23748834.2022.2084589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2022.2084589","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Inequity of access to the cycling network may reinforce social disparities in health and access to resources and opportunities. This study aims to examine whether the area-level material deprivation index is associated with different levels of accessibility to Lisbon’s (i) cycling network and (ii) bike-sharing docking stations network. Independent t-tests were implemented, and regression models were performed to estimate the associations of the multiple deprivation index with each dependent bike lane and bike-sharing docking station variable, adjusting for covariates. The results confirm the hypothesis of a significant difference between the most and least deprived areas in terms of the presence of bike lanes and bike-sharing stations as well as in terms of coverage, distance, and connectivity of the both infrastructures. When covariates are controlled, a higher index of material deprivation is associated with (i) a lower presence of, greater distance to, and lower coverage of bike-sharing docking stations; and (ii) is not associated with the presence of, distance to, connectivity of, and coverage of cycle lane networks. Based on these findings, efforts should be directed to increase access to bike lanes and bike-sharing systems to more deprived areas.","PeriodicalId":72596,"journal":{"name":"Cities & health","volume":"1 1","pages":"729 - 743"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88714787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-30DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2022.2072057
E. Oscilowicz, Isabelle Anguelovski, M. Triguero-Mas, Melissa García-Lamarca, F. Baró, Helen V. S. Cole
ABSTRACT Green or environmental gentrification has been shown to be directly related to residential physical and socio-cultural displacement and insecure housing conditions among socially or racially underprivileged residents, with clear related health impacts. In this context, those vulnerable groups become unable to benefit from the social, well-being, and overall health benefits of green amenities. To date, despite increasing gentrification and related civic concerns, cities in North America and Europe are still slow to respond. Siloed and reactive planning approaches to (re)development and greening generally do not include housing security and affordability provisions in ways that would be strategic and equity-driven. In this Commentary, we call for further research on the mix of policies and tools that posit multi-sectoral and de-siloed greening agendas in coordination with affordable and stable housing. We open the discussion on four justice-driven policies and tools presented in the Policy Tools for Urban Green Justice (BCNUEJ 2021) report that derives from research conducted in 40 cities, analyzing 480 interviews with key neighborhood stakeholders across Europe and North America. We also call for research that identifies how urban policy developments and anti-gentrification and anti-displacement strategies can be combined with inclusive greening tools to build healthy, green cities for all.
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