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Healthy Cities: Message from the Director of Smart Cities & Sport

WEBMélanie Duparc, Secretary General of the World Union of Olympic Cities. The data collected worldwide related to health are indisputable. The increase of …

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Label: An Active City For Healthier And Happier Citizens

WEBThe Global Active City (GAC) Programme is a comprehensive solution enabling cities to take concrete steps towards improving the health and well-being of …

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Interview with Marta Rofin Serrà, Project Coordinator, Urbact …

WEBThe URBACT Healthy Cities Network brings together nine partners facing different challenges and different policy needs to develop a common framework that will …

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Smaller Data, Healthier Kids, Smarter Cities

WEBSmaller Data, Healthier Kids, Smarter Cities. Dec 10, 2019. “It has been nearly 10 years since WHO published its Global Recommandations on Physical Activity …

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Insights from the WHO: How to make a city active

WEBPhysical activity helps prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and some cancers, and also helps prevent obesity and improves mental health and well-being. Yet …

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Interview with Marie Sallois Dembreville, Director Corporate and

WEB"Obesity has tripled since 1975 and non-communicable diseases are steadily increasing – health is a huge challenge for society."

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Interview with Philippe de Witte, Coordinator, Active Local Europe

WEBTo recover the life of the city, generating spaces for recreation and where it is possible and enjoyable to play and perform physical activity, as well as to carry out …

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The development of ‘Sports-City’ zones and their potential values …

WEBIn the past decade, various cities around the world have developed sports-themed areas fully dedicated to sports – “Sports-City” zones. While the concept of such …

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Frisco, Texas, USA: From an unpretentious city to the Mecca of …

WEBBack at the turn of the 21st century, the City of Frisco, Texas, was a sleepy town on the northern outskirts of Dallas. The farming community of 35,000 had more …

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Active Citizens Worldwide: Empowering policy-makers through …

WEBBy linking its policy-makers and agencies in areas of health, sports, education and social development around a framework of integrated initiatives, a Global …

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urban planning & infrastructures

WEBthe city. While a sedentary lifestyle causes increasing problems, buildings and other urban facilities can be conceived of and designed for the promotion of physical activity. As …

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Sport Tourism: An ever-growing sector with high potential for cities

WEBAs defined by Gibson (1998, p. 49), sport tourism is a “leisurebased travel that takes individuals temporarily outside of their home communities to participate and/or …

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Interview with Fernando Parente, Executive Committee Member, …

WEBThe six domains of actions and activities integrated within the project go beyond sport and aim at involving the largest number of students and being as most …

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Interview with Nasima Razmyar, Deputy Mayor, City of Helsinki

WEBThe city of Helsinki is highly committed to gender balance. Our main goal is to anchor the principles of gender equality throughout the city and act as a role model for …

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Interview with Rostam Umar, Chief Strategy Group, Sport Singapore

WEBWe believe that sport has unique, inherent qualities that we can leverage to reap not just health benefits, but also in non-traditional domains such as social …

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tourism & city branding

WEBpromoting city assets. Having an easily identifiable brand and image is essential for the promotion of cities. Sport is an integral part of life in a city. Practitioners are making …

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Interview with Florencia van Houdt, Head of Sport Unit, European

WEBIndeed, there are many elements of the sport sector that have been considered a very important part of tourism strategies in the EU. Overall, sport tourism …

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Interview with Soham El Wardini, Mayor of Dakar, Senegal

WEBThe City of Dakar, with an estimated population of 1’363’444 and nearly 3’500’000 in the Dakar area, is experiencing accelerated population growth due to …

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