CALL FOR PAPERS: Healthy, 10-Minute Neighborhoods
Register/Submit Deadline: Tuesday, Oct 31, 201711:59 PMPDT
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55 th International Making Cities Livable Conference May 14-18, 2018, The Shaw Center, Ottawa, Canada
Join us in Ottawa to share your achievements and learn from others how we can best promote healthy, sustainable, equitable 10-minute neighborhoods. We shall discuss the best neighborhood models for encouraging walking, biking and public transit, high-density human scale mixed use, places to foster daily social life and community, opportunities for daily contact with nature, and equitable neighborhood planning.
PAPER PROPOSALS:
Paper proposals are invited from elected officials, scholars and practitioners concerned with issues such as the following:
Planning 10-Minute neighborhoods
Land-use planning for new neighborhoods
Re-shaping suburbia into healthy 10-minute neighborhoods
Essential elements of 10-minute neighborhoods
Generating Community in 10-Minute Neighborhoods
Neighborhood plazas, sociable squares, Reclaiming streets for people
Child- and elder-friendly lifetime community
Form based coding to generate “Eyes on the Street”
Combatting loneliness, depression, strengthening the "Social immune system"
Social networks in vertical and horizontal sprawl v. human scale density
The Healthy 10-Minute Neighborhood
Active mobility, walkable, bikable streets, complete streets, etc
How the built and natural environment affects health
Integrating public health and planning, Health impact assessment
Health impact of air pollution, urban noise, light pollution; and mitigation strategies
The Ecologically Sustainable 10-Minute Neighborhood
Fighting climate change by healthy urban design
Transit-oriented, mixed-use development
Restructuring suburbs, high-rise and sprawl
Green architecture, green urban design
Combatting food deserts, urban agriculture
The Equitable 10-Minute Neighborhood
Health equity planning
Inclusive and equitable communities, healing social segregation
Community participation/ Children and youth involvement
Prioritizing improvements in poor neighborhoods, barrios and favelas
Housing the homeless/preventing homelessness /Integrating immigrants
For more details and to submit a proposal, please see: http://www.livablecities.org/call-papers
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