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Thematic Area: Urban infrastructures

Infrastructure usually refers to the built environment or aspects of our surroundings that are built by humans, that is, distinguished from the natural environment. It includes not only buildings, but the human-made spaces between buildings, such as parks, and the infrastructure that supports human activity such as transportation networks, utilities networks, flood defences, telecommunications, and so on (Design Buildings Wiki).

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Making Spaces for Children. Planning for Post-Disaster Reconstruction with Children and Their Families

This report explains why is important – in contest of crisis – to involve children and families in the planning of their physical living environment, and how to do it. This handbook aims at contributing to disaster response reconstruction programmes that not only rebuild the physical living environment but that strengthen the capacity of communities…
  • Publication year: 2006
  • Content Type: Report
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The Challenge of Time in Community-Based Participatory Design

This study tackles in detail the problem of time and different timings of each stakeholder involved on PD processes. One of the most critical issues is the time coordination of stakeholders in participatory design articulation of their actions in terms of time. The difference in background, role and motivation between the participating actors can result…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Places for Children – Children’s Places

This article highlights the difference between places created by adults for children (places for children) and spaces that children themselves consider to be play spaces (children’s places). This is an important concept to keep in mind when co-designing social infrastructures with and for children. In their everyday lives, children largely stay within and relate to…
  • Publication year: 2004
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Reducing Inequities in Early Childhood Mental Health: How Might the Neighborhood Built Environment Help Close The Gap? A Systematic Search and Critical Review

This study provides a review and investigates the gaps in research that study the connection between built environment and children’s development. This paper presents a critical review of the current research investigating the associations between the neighbourhood built environment and young children’s (aged 0–8 years) mental health. In general studies found a greater access to,…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Cities Alive. Designing for Urban Childhoods

This report highlights why and how city stakeholders should start to create child-friendly urban environments. It begins by highlighting the changing urban context and sets out the five core challenges of urban childhoods. It goes on to articulate two fundamental concepts for the development of more child-friendly approaches: ‘everyday freedoms’ and ‘children’s infrastructure’. It then…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Report

Regional Action Plan for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean 2016-2036

The Regional Action Plan for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean (RAP) seeks to be the regional expression of the New Urban Agenda (NUA). It promotes evidence-based policy making, setting out potential actions and interventions as well as relevant and priority policy guidance for all Latin American and…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Report

The Future of Cities: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward

This report identifies challenges influencing the future of cities in Europe and beyond. It also presents several perspectives from which to look at resolving these issues. The main aim is to raise open questions and steer discussions on what the future of cities can, and should be, both within the scientific and policymaker communities.  It…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Report

Beyond the Networked City: Situated Practices of Citizenship and Grassroots Agency in Water Infrastructure Provision in the Chamazi Settlement, Dar Es Salaam

The paper argues in favour of newly emerging forms of citizenship within participatory spheres that enhance access of the poor to urban services through direct participation aimed at socially equitable outcomes. It develops principles of inclusiveness and social justice, contributing to long-term improvement. Concept: infrastructure deficit is not solely a technical problem of extending pipe…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Inclusive Urban Infrastructure Investments: A Guide for Municipalities

This publication is intended as a practical guide for mayors, local government officials, sector specialists, planners, and other decision makers involved in the programming and design of urban infrastructure projects in medium-sized cities. The guide aims to: – facilitate understanding of concepts and issues related to the design of infrastructure projects that will directly or…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Report

Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth: A Manual for Participation

This book is a practical manual on how to conceptualize, structure and facilitate the participation of young people in the community development process. It is an important tool for urban planners, municipal officials, community development staff, non-governmental organizations, educators, youth-serving agencies, youth advocates, and others who are involved in the community development process. It offers…
  • Publication year: 2002
  • Content Type: Book

Re-Imagining Participatory Design: Reflecting on the ASF-UK Change by Design Methodology

This article aims to reflect on the ASF-UK Change by Design methodology in participatory informal settlement upgrading, positioning it within ongoing debates about the conceptualization and practice of participatory design. The first part of this article draws on key literature exploring the relationship between participation and architecture and participation and design to identify the trends…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Don’t Just Listen- Do Something! Lessons Learned about Governance from the Growing Up in Cities Project

Eight practitioners in the Growing Up in Cities project of UNESCO reflect on what they have learned in terms of how to move government officials and leaders of civil society to view children and youth as partners in creating livable cities. They describe their experience in participatory action research with children and youth, how they…
  • Publication year: 2005
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Block by Block

Block by Block is a global initiative that uses the popular video game Minecraft to involve youth in the planning process in urban areas by giving them the opportunity to show planners and decision makers how they would like to see their cities in the future. The project is a collaboration between Mojang, the creators…
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Content Type: Other document

La Obsolescencia como Oportunidad Para una Infraestructura Social: Torre David

Latin American case of a neglected infrastructure reconverted into ‘social infrastructure’. For its scale and diversity as well as its unfinished state, its inhabitants found an exceptional urban condition to rebuild a new identity as citizens. A set of 5 open systems that transformed that obsolescence into an alternative part of the city; a social…
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Visioning as Participatory Planning Tool: Learning from Kosovo Practices

This sourcebook draws from the experience of several successive programmes implemented by UN-Habitat in Kosovo, which used visioning as a participatory planning tool. The toolkit explains a) the role of visioning in participatory planning; b) the methodology of visioning; and c) learning from the experiences in Kosovo. The goal is to explore ideas and tools…
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Shaping Urbanization for Children: A Handbook on Child-Responsive Urban Planning

Shaping urbanization for children, a handbook on child-responsive urban planning, presents concepts, evidence and technical strategies to bring children to the foreground of urban planning. By focusing on children, this publication provides guidance on the central role that urban planning should play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), from a global perspective to a…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Emergency Architecture & Human Rights Annual Report

After the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, and series of catastrophic tsunamis that followed in its wake, the team behind EAHR recognized that the profession of architecture had forgotten the most vulnerable people of the world and the significant impact architecture could have on building resilience and stimulating development before and after emergencies. In the following…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Report

Bridging the Gap. Save the Children’s transitional Housing Project after the Tsunami in Ampara district, Sri Lanka

The publication documents the shelter construction process in Ampara district, Sri Lanka, following the 2004 tsunami. Under this project, the first 100 houses were declared by UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) to be the best among the thirty kinds of transitional shelter constructed in Ampara district. Save the Children’s shelters met international criteria…
  • Publication year: 2007
  • Content Type: Report

Leave No One Behind: Infrastructure and Inclusion

This review outlines ways in which different groups of people might be unintentionally excluded if their needs and livelihoods are not taken into account in infrastructure projects. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the concept of ‘leave no one behind’ capture the desire to ensure people are not excluded as citizens in their society. Some…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Report

Designed to Scale Mass Participation to Build Resilient Neighbourhoods

Small, fragmented, low frequency participation will not transform neighbourhoods. Is local participation at scale possible and does it hold the potential to improve people’s lives and make lasting positive change? The Open Works research project aimed to test if a platform approach could scale up the new type of ‘participation culture’ that has emerged over…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Social Infrastructure and Sustainable Urban Communities

‘Mixed use’ is a solution often used to address (urban) sustainability concerns. The claim is that more compact, high density urban developments that serve a multitude of uses and users can be socially beneficial while being environmentally sound and economically viable. In the case of the Luneside East regeneration project in Lancaster, UK, ‘mixed use’…
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Enabling Inclusive Cities Tool Kit for Inclusive Urban Development

This toolkit has been prepared to provide support for the inclusive cities theme.  It presents methods to gather the required information on a particular context and location for IUD; to decide priorities; and to plan, design, and implement inclusive urban projects.  The toolkit presents an opportunity to create a record of the project design process…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Building Urban Safety through Slum Upgrading

Excluded from the city’s opportunities, physically, politically and economically marginalized, slum dwellers are particularly vulnerable to crime and violence. They face an acute risk of becoming victims or offenders and live in a state of constant insecurity. Only a few cities have incorporated a coherent component to prevent crime and mitigate violence in their urban…
  • Publication year: 2011
  • Content Type: Report

Lebanon Cities’ Public Spaces

In Lebanon, the social connections are undeniable and crucial. However, meeting places remain private such as houses, restaurants, malls, and beach resorts. This is mainly due to the shortage of public spaces in Lebanon resulting from lack of planning, regulations and awareness around the right to the city and the importance of public spaces. In…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Academic paper

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DeCID: Co-designing social infrastructure with children affected by displacement is a project led by The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (UCL) and CatalyticAction, and funded by UKRI through the Global Challenges Research Fund.

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