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Urban Health

The future of global health is urban health. Cities—where 56 percent of the globe's population currently live and 68 percent are projected to live by 2050—are at the front lines of challenges that will define global health in the coming decades: from climate change, pollution, and water shortages, to conflict, unhealthy lifestyles, and human innovation

Urbanization
Why health of cities needs a NATO framework, not WHO

NATO for Health

by David Cutler, Edward Glaeser

Why the health of the world's cities needs a model more like NATO than the WHO

Urbanization
A young man uses his phone is a destroyed building

Syndemic Urbanism: Urban Injustice in Traumatized Cities

by Haim Yacobi

How violence, neglect, and health are entangled in urban territories

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A man refreshes himself and his dog at a fountain, in Madureira Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 19, 2019.

Adapting Our Cities to the Future 

by Michael Brauer

Why cities need to plan for climate change now 

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Along the banks of the Buriganga River, a Muslim boatman performs evening prayer in the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on May 1, 2021.

Cities: Creating Transformative Spaces that Address Climate and Health

by Brenda B. Lin, Harini Nagendra, Susan Parnell

Nature-based and social solutions benefit cities in low- and middle-income countries

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DOCUMENT DATE: March 27, 2009 Commuters peer from a broken window on a public bus in Lagos, March 27, 2009.

Learning from Lagos

by Oliver Harman, Siobhan McDonough

How a "lite" rapid transit system in the Nigerian city transformed commuting

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smog in russia

Smoggy Cities

by Haydn Welch

Ghostly images of some of the world's most polluted metropolises

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The Nairobi skyline is seen in the background as Hartebeests graze at the Nairobi National Park near Nairobi, Kenya May 12, 2017.

A Touch of Green

by Mary Brophy Marcus, Caroline Kantis

Snapshots from cities creating green spaces and sustainable structures