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
Title
Call for Papers: "Healthy, 10-Minute Neighborhoods"Type
Call for SubmissionsWebsite
Organizers
Submission Deadline
October 31, 2017 11:30 PMVenue
55th International Making Cities Livable ConferencePrice
Free