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Building Healthy Cities

A Focus on Interventions

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Handbook of Urban Health

6.0. Conclusion

Through community organizing this approach has proven to build both localized and bridging social capital that has manifested itself through physical improvements of urban environments. Over its eight years of existence The City Repair Project has created over 30 public gathering places and events in Portland, OR that engage people to connect with the community and place around them. Intersection Repair projects outside the Portland area have been implemented or are in the process of being implemented in Olympia, WA, Ottawa, Ontario, Ashland, NC, Minneapolis, MN, and Ithaca, NY. They all have a core group of people committed to making their neighborhoods better places to live and have strategically organized their community. The goal is to help people physically change their neighborhoods to be more community-oriented, ecologically sustainable, and simply more beautiful. This work is inspired by the idea that localization of decisionmaking, culture, and economy is a necessary foundation for healthy cities.

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Semenza, J.C. (2005). Building Healthy Cities. In: Galea, S., Vlahov, D. (eds) Handbook of Urban Health. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-25822-1_23

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