Neurological benefits of third places for young adults in healthy urban environments

Many cities suffer from traffic congestion and noise and the overpopulation resulting from dense buildings along main streets making access to various facility and services more diffecult and daily routine. Therefore, a resilient and smart city with healthy environment can only be acheived with a huge budget. And if these cities are located near majorindustrial area and site of waste dump the budget is huger for relocating wast dump site to uninhabited area and away from water source, agricultural area and ecologicalforest system and rehabilitating the area in line with local plan to develop the region so that the environment in these large areas is clean and conductive toprosperious living in healthy atmosphere. And for serving the health in the cental region of Algeria and Algiers, as well as serving heahelth with specialized minimally invasivesurgery in Algeria. We focus on developing a city with healthy climate and by reasonable budget. In this research we shaws the concept of smart, scientific and healthy urban environment in Ouzera town with its urban routes characterized by smooth traffic flow in ecological environment. The research focuses on developing a scientific urban model with a smart interface provides a healthy scientific urban environment. The facilities designated in biomimetic shape witha smart interface contributes to achieving the reslience and urban efficiency of scientific and healthy city with smart university hospital served health in smart space urban model.

The power that develops when communities define their urban planning agendas is now becoming more and more evident, and community-led development may offer long-lasting upgrades to metropolitan areas. A city's social and physical environment can either enable or hinder its residents' well-being and ability to become independent whereas there are still wide gaps between understanding the inclusive urban environment and a healthy environment. There remains an overwhelming reality of alienation of the users from their environment. The term inclusive cities are widely used to refer to the inclusion of marginalized communities – slum dwellers, migrants, minority groups, women or young people – in urban processes. This paper aimed at defining an inclusive and healthy urban environment in the global south, its benefits, and its characteristics to redefine the community. An empirical article review was conducted to establish the concepts. Findings from the reviews show different indicators of urban environment exclusion and drivers of inclusivity concepts. It is therefore concluded that for urban sustainability, each community should be given priority for an inclusive healthy urban environment. Stakeholders of the global south should therefore provide policies and implement programs for total inclusiveness.

Urban design is key to healthy environments for all

This paper describes the results of the international Erasmus + project “HURBE: Healthy URBan Environment Developing Higher Education in Architecture and Construction in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. The project consortium developed the curricula in Higher Education Institutions dealing with the field of healthy urban environment in the Faculties of Architecture and Construction in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project involves six universities from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Croatia and Bulgaria. The main results include modernisation of the curriculum by developing new and innovative courses and installing new laboratories.KeywordsHealthUrban planningEnvironmental protectionCurriculum development

Healthy Urban Environments is a response to growing urban footprints, population growth in cities, the unprecedented scale of non-human species extinction and ‘the irreversible damage to the earth’...

Hotter cities: climate change and planning for resilient, healthy urban environments

‘Hope for a Celestial City - A Triptych’: A musical composition for sustainability and cleaner productions for the Jing-Jin-Ji region, China

Resource depletion, climate change and degradation of ecosystems are challenges faced by cities worldwide and will increase if cities do not adapt. In order to tackle those challenges, it is necessary to transform our cities into sustainable systems using a holistic approach. One element in achieving this transition is the implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS). NBS can provide a range of ecosystem services beneficial for the urban biosphere such as regulation of micro-climates, flood prevention, water treatment, food provision and more. However, most NBS are implemented serving only one single purpose. Adopting the concept of circular economy by combining different types of services and returning resources to the city, would increase the benefits gained for urban areas. The COST Action Circular City aims to establish a network testing the hypothesis that: ‘A circular flow system that implements NBS for managing nutrients and resources within the urban biosphere will lead to a resilient, sustainable and healthy urban environment’. In this paper we introduce the COST Action Circular City by describing its main objectives and aims. The paper also serves as introduction to the review papers of the Action's five Working Groups in this Special Issue.

Investing in healthy urban environments – a pathway to sustainable development and equity

In the construction of urban settlement coaching, efforts must be made to improve public service, including environmental management. Waste problems are closely related to environmental cleanliness. This study examines the need for joint waste management, between government and the community to achieve success. The city of Samarinda and its residents who undergo daily activities that produce waste, need better waste management efforts to achieve the fulfillment of the need for a clean and healthy urban environment. Especially when the awareness of the community is known to be still low in terms of concern for the government’s efforts in waste management which includes waste reduction and handling activities. Keywords: waste management, public attitude.

The quality of life for urban communities in Palmerah village, Palmerah subdistrict, West Jakarta varies widely. There are very well established with a very good quality of life, but there are also many people who are still lacking in the quality of life. The objective of this study is to namely improving the quality of community life through the development of green and smart villages in urban environments. The method of this study was conducted using a descriptive method and participatory that aims to provide solutions for urban village environmental arrangements so that people care about a clean and healthy environment, as well as create a stronger sense of belonging to a village than the previous conditions. The results of the study provide an overview that efforts to improve the quality of the environment in Palmerah are supported by the local community’s awareness of Betawi culture and the Betawi character they want to display in their residential environment. The construction of the Palmerah Gate was initiated to support the realization of a well-ordered, green, clean and healthy urban settlement environment.

Purpose: Health is one of the most important interests in current and future human society. Various efforts, which to maintain and promote their good health conditions, continue to be tried in future urban and architectural environment. The purpose of this study is to establish an integrated framework of research approaches for healthy urban and architectural environment that continuously promotes health according to people's entire life course. Methods: This was done by literature reviews, which is related to interdisciplinary researches for the determinants of health and healthy environment. Results: As a result of this study, an integrated research model, as a methodology, was proposed. This explains the concept of integrated research approaches for urban and architectural environment in the respect of people's health. Integrated health concept includes not only the area of health care environment to have recovery and treatment but also the daily living environment for people who have potential of being ill, and finally the city environment for entire people as health supporting elements including safety and primary prevention. Implications: Under the basis of this model, according to the life course, various researches on sustainable healthy urban and architectural environment should be followed from now on. The model should also be continuously complemented and developed into a standard of healthy environment.

Lifestyles and consumption in cities and the links with health and well-being: the case of obesity

Objective: This research aims to analyze and assess the legal and regulatory system for urban environmental management in Algeria and the penalty for violating it, with a particular focus on the various factors and challenges affecting the urban environment, and explore the mechanisms and tools of environmental management. Theoretical Framework: The study encompasses various concepts and principles related to urban environmental management, legal frameworks, and governance. It provides a foundation for understanding the relationship between urban development, environmental issues, and the legal and regulatory mechanisms in Algeria. Methodology: Descriptive and analytical approaches will be adopted. The descriptive approach focuses on the laws that address the issue, while the analytical one clarifies the role of relevant laws in defining the administrative management of cities. In this context, we will limit the scope of the study to highlighting the factors and tools of environmental management and highlighting the key issues affecting the urban environment, as well as examining the development of legal, protective and regulatory systems for urban environmental management in. Results and Discussion: Despite the existence of an advanced legal system, shortcomings in its implementation have resulted in genuine obstacles to creating urban settlements or developing old ones. This situation is attributed to political, social, and economic factors, as well as weak oversight and lax enforcement of laws related to urban planning. Consequently, this has resulted in cities that fail to meet citizens' service needs, highlighting the urgent need to reassess the regulations governing the urban environment and the methods of their implementation. Research Implications: Environmental studies of urban settlements (architecture and cities) and the legal system regulating them are of great importance, especially since the efforts of the Algerian state in this field are evident. However, the real issue often arises in the implementation of the law, leading to actual crises in the demographic growth of cities in relation to a clean and healthy urban environment. Therefore, this study aims to outline the legal and regulatory framework for managing the urban environment in Algeria, the penalties for violations, and to describe and evaluate it. Originality/Value: The study of the urban environment from a legal and regulatory perspective is limited, which has prompted us to examine this topic to demonstrate the legal and regulatory framework for managing the urban environment in Algeria and the penalties for its violations. Consequently, this research is considered new in its field.

Topics of sustainable urban development and environmental sustainability are worldwide considered as fundamental for every strategy of urban transformation, renewal and regeneration. In particular, urban regenerations are urban re-development programs involving the rebirth or renewal of selected urban areas or district that have faced periods of decline due to compounding and intersecting pressures. The programs cover many aspects of the area to be re-generated such as physical, social and environmental contexts. Re-use of already built up areas and buildings, reduction of the demand for new soils to be developed, increasing of appealing of dense city areas, increasing of social and spatial resilience are among the positive consequences of these programs. However, in the current debate about urban regeneration, few studies have evaluated the real environmental outcomes and effectiveness of regeneration programs in terms of physical variables such as new provided greenspaces, accessibility to public transportation, climate change or seismic risk reduction. This paper proposes a method to quantify the real outcomes and effectiveness of urban regeneration programs with reference to the above mentioned variables. As a real experience of urban planning, the new Local Spatial Plan for the Municipality of Catania, a medium sized city in Southern Italy, is presented. The city is characterised by a high density urban fabric, a general lack of urban greenspaces and high levels of traffic congestion due to a massive use of private transportation. The urban fabric is also very vulnerable to seismic and climate change risks. Among the transformation tools, the new Local spatial plan proposes regeneration actions aimed at the complete regeneration of old and dilapidated areas, not classified as historical heritage and heavily vulnerable to seismic risk. These actions include the complete demolition and reconstruction of these areas within clearly defined boundaries, contributing to minimise soil consumption, maintaining as open public spaces the majority of existing non urbanised areas within the densely built-up settlement. The program of regeneration can dramatically contributes to the reduction of seismic and climate change risk and achieve a general requalification of the urban environment. Starting from this planning experience, this paper focus on the evaluation of the regenerations programs included in the Local Spatial Plan. Regeneration Areas (RAs) have been identified by the municipality as characterized by high level of seismic vulnerability, urban degradation, lack of public services and urban environment quality. For the chosen areas, this study proposes the evaluation of the transformations potentially occurring in the urban context by the proposed regeneration program. The following aspects are evaluated: reduction of risks (in terms of exposition and vulnerability to seismic and climate change related risks) 2 International Scientific Conference GEOBALCANICA 2016 256 mobility (concerning the presence of public means of transports, distance to the transit stops, roads, pedestrian and cycling lanes) accessibility increase (in terms of access to trip attractions) land-use diversity (in terms of number and distribution of different land uses) public spaces and services (in terms of extension and functions) Each of the aforementioned aspects are evaluated by spatial indicators calculated by GIS. All indicators are calculated at different and size increasing units, in order to understand the effect of a single regeneration project and of a number of concurrent projects within the considered geographical units. The geographical units are the RAs and districts. Different combinations of regeneration projects will be thus evaluated to highlight which projects produce the most relevant effects, calculated with the proposed indicators. This will allow the municipality to define scenarios of regeneration priority, in terms of which projects might be financed and implemented firstly because of their higher positive effect on the urban environment. Such scenarios will generate positive effects not only to the single areas to be regenerated but also to wider urban contexts, significantly reducing the urban vulnerability to seismic and climate change risks and at the same time producing more livable and healthy urban environment.