Resources

Impacts of Extreme Heat on Early Childhood Health and Development Masterclass

Dr Lindsey Burghardt, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

A podcast on how to improve public life for children and caregivers by observing and measuring their use of public urban space.

Local government can be unwieldy. Predictable problems like shrinking budgets and bloated bureaucracy can slow down projects, but in Glasgow, focusing on children and caregivers, is helping to ‘push through the politics’ to unite stakeholders.

A podcast on how cities can respond to displacement and migration

Across Zambia, cities are putting their youngest residents first.

This panel discussion examined how cities can respond to displacement and migration arising from conflict, climate change, precarity, and other forms of violence and instability, with particular attention to the impacts on young children and their families. Speakers discussed how displacement is increasingly becoming an ongoing challenge for many communities rather than a single event, and highlighted efforts to understand and address the wellbeing of people living in these circumstances.

An Interview with Dublin City Councillor Cat O’Driscoll

A podcast about housing and wellbeing of young children and their caregivers.

For a century, road development in the United States has been centred around cars, but in Massachusetts that’s starting to change. The state’s new design guide aims to meet the needs of all road users by translating theoretical goals–like inclusivity, accessibility, safety, and multiple kinds of users–into metrics.