Urban Regeneration in Lecce - Building Healthy Communities Project Video
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09 October 2017Building Healthy Communities (BHC) is an URBACT project made of 10 European cities looking for joint, effective and sustainable solutions on urban factors influencing health and opportunities for cities to shape and implement healthy policies for their citizens. In February 2011 the Italian city of Lecce, partner in the BHC project, has organised an info-day on the project. Following the event, an interesting videoclip has been produced. Take a look at the video and discover BHC project objectives, challenges and first achievements at local level in Lecce.
It is increasingly recognised that involved, "healthy" communities form the primary building blocks of truly sustainable cities, but the struggle to accommodate the balanced, interdependent, inclusive and qualitative development pattern that this implies is far from being resolved. The primary focus of Building Healthy Communities project is on real community health issues, but in this juxtaposition an opening is created both to confront the role of housing in this respect but also to think about how communities themselves can be enabled to participate effectively in improving the conditions in which they live.
The first part of the video introduces the BHC project then it focuses on the partner city Lecce. This major city intends to reduce the effects of electromagnetic fields on public health. According to Silvane Di Sabatino, BHC Local Support Group Coordinator in Lecce, "one of the goals of Lecce’s Local Support Group is to lay underground electric-cables in the historical centre and the 'zone 45' where a large electric substation is present". She explains that "cable removal will impact on local electromagnetic pollution. Starting from cable removal, our Local Action Plan explores the feasibility of integrated solutions for sustainable development".
Also interviewed in the video, the Mayor of Lecce, Paolo Perrone explains how Lecce is incorporating the BHC process into a larger action for urban regeneration. "We imagine our city development to be friendly, modern and sustainable", he summarizes.
Watch the video!
Read more:
- BHC Video on Lecce - Youtube
- Building Healthy Communities - URBACT Website
- Building Healthy Communities: Focus on the Lecce Local Support Group - URBACT Website
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