Improved livability for health and wellbeing
This solution addresses limited livability in Bristol, UK for local communities
Problem Description
The city center and neighborhoods are great places for people of all ages to live, work, learn, and play. Green infrastructure and the natural environment can provide multiple benefits such as active travel, improved air quality, improved health and wellbeing, and reduced impacts of flooding, climate change, and environmental degradation, and reduced transport costs.Building Blocks
- Child Friendly City
- Transformative Leadership
- City metrics and Sustainable Development Goals
- Protecting and valuing green space
- Active and healthy ageing
- Natural Capital Trust
- Urban Integrated Diagnostics
- Resilience Impact Assessment
- Resilience and West of England devolution deal
- Horizon scanning
- Wild rainwater streets
- Manage our future flood risk
- Establishing a resilient city financing structure
- Climate change adaptation plan
- Clean air city
- Bristol Transport Plan
- Legible City
- Repurpose Neighbourhood Partnerships
- Free bus travel for under 16
- New models of housing delivery
- Participatory City
- Social action volunteering
- Tackling street homelessness
- Community-based adaptation
- Citizen data engagement
- Cultural engagement to build social cohesion
Story
"Focus on livability" is 1 of 5 goals of Bristol's Resilience Strategy. Bristol is an independent-thinking, sustainable and culturally diverse city with a high quality of life. Bristol is thriving. But there is no room for complacency. Changes are occurring at unprecedented rates in our economy, job markets, technology, environment, politics and population, and consequently our challenges are becoming both more severe and more unexpected. The vision of resilience articulated here is a distinctively ‘Bristol’ vision, and it is a genuinely collective one, emerging from not only rigorous data analysis but also the experiences and opinions of thousands of Bristolians, as well as national and international friends. We have co-created this Resilience Strategy, comprising a 50 year vision, resilience pillars, goals and transformative actions.
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Organisations Involved
Contributed By
- Sarah Toy, Strategic Resilience Officer, Bristol's Resilience Strategy
Solution Stage
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| STAGE | SPECIALIST SKILLS REQUIRED | EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES | RISK LEVEL AND HANDLING | FINANCE REQUIRED | KINDS OF EVIDENCE GENERATED | GOAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developing and testing3 | Mix of design and implementation skills |
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HIGH |
MEDIUM | A stronger case with cost and benefit projections developed through practical trials and experiments, involving potential users | Demonstration that the idea works, or evidence to support a reworking of the idea |