🏗️Sustainable Development Spotlight! For many, housing is more than just a building or a room they rent—it’s the relationships, the history, the system that brings neighbors together. This is why it’s so important for cities to take a people-centered, inclusive approach to urban development. In our final spotlight, gathered by the International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) team, Somsook Boonyabancha of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) shares what it means to make housing development more inclusive and how urban planners and local government need to consider the needs of all residents, across neighborhoods and income levels. Learn more about equitable and sustainable urban development, and explore other stories from the field: https://lnkd.in/eZsuT9bf
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Now available: Quality of Life Initiative Implementation Guidelines – Advance Release Version 1.0 Are you ready to transform urban living? 🚀 The Quality of Life Initiative’s Implementation Guidelines offer a practical, step-by-step roadmap for cities to assess and enhance the well-being of their communities. 📖 What’s inside? ✔️ A comprehensive framework for adopting the Quality of Life Index ✔️ Practical steps for policymakers, urban planners & community leaders ✔️ A clear path to improve urban well-being for all inhabitants This is your city's guide to creating more equitable, sustainable, and thriving cities. 🌍✨ 🔗 Download the Advance Release now and join the movement today: https://lnkd.in/e7ka_kHu
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