Policy and planning tools for urban green justice

Tools to incorporate the health perspective in municipal actions

Oscilowicz, E., et al.
2021

Link to the resource: http://www.bcnuej.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Toolkit-Urban-Green-Justice.pdf

Format:: Guide

Target population:: Local administrations and citizen associations

Objetive:

This document examines in depth 50 tools that are available to administrations and agents involved in urban planning, to work for equity in access to housing and green spaces.

It provides regulations that are available to planners and policy implementers to support housing equity (30 tools) and fair and inclusive green development (20 tools).

Methodology:

The guide proposes working towards fair and equitable greening through two main areas: access to housing and green space.

It compiles 50 strategies/tools (30 on housing equity, 20 on fair and inclusive access to green spaces) that local administrations and urban planning technicians have at their disposal to work along these lines.

These tools include: changes in land use, re-zoning, conservation of neighbourhoods or green areas of interest, regulations on tourist rentals, minimum size of housing/plots, financial incentives (for owners, tenants, neighbourhood associations, promoters, etc.), promotion of greening of disused empty lots, renaturalisation of streets, etc.

For each of the tools included in this document, the strengths and limitations are presented, and case studies are provided as examples of good practice.

Opportunities and limitations:

This document includes a selection of tools according to their suitability for different regions or contexts: typical municipalities in the USA, typical municipalities in Western Europe, municipalities under high tourist and/or foreign investment pressure, municipalities with strong community activism focused on equity and social/environmental justice, and small, rural or suburban municipalities in the USA or Western Europe.

This toolkit does not represent an exhaustive list of policies, but rather provides a review of best practices in community development and revitalisation efforts from a social justice perspective.

While it provides examples of implementation of the tools, it does not contain an economic/financial analysis of them.

Indicators:

m2 of green space/inhabitant.
Percentage of affordable social housing.
Percentage of population living within 300 m. of a green space.
Number of actors/local administrations involved.
Number of dwellings/ha.
Level of socioeconomic diversity.

Thematic:: Housing and neighbourhood communities Green infrastructure Cohesion and social capital

Link to health:: Physical Mental Social

Scale of the field of study:: Housing / street / building / bounded public space Block - set of buildings or spaces Neighbourhood (or higher)

Implementation phase:: Implementation

Methodological approach:: Observation Qualitative / Participatory Questionnaire

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