Track
Track 6: Creating Healthy and Inclusive Urban Environment

Position
Co-Chair WPC T6 Healthy and Inclusive Urban Environments / Co-creator Isocarp CoP Urban Health

Bio
Elisabeth Belpaire is an engineer architect, an urban and spatial planner and brings over 25 years of experience: architecture, urban planning, design and governance in Belgium, France, Switzerland; sustainable development and disaster risk reduction with UN-Habitat in Vietnam, management of post-conflict programmes and creation of a new strategic integrated planning system in Kosovo; development of a regional capacity building instrument addressing housing & informal settlements with South-East Europe governments and partners; regeneration of West Bank historical centres; design of a Foundation’s strategy for cities to support healthy childhood development; inputs to the public space department of Bogota and to 15-min neighbourhood concept; contributing to Global State of National Urban Policy Programme and the Mentor Student Research Lab on the public spaces of tomorrow; co-initiator of ISOCARP ‘Community of Practice on Urban Health’. Her talks in Chicago, London, New-Zealand and at TEDx Geneva, bring attention to the health and wellbeing of our young, and how cities can enable them to thrive, especially since too often they fall through the cracks of city planning and management.

Elisabeth holds a M.Sc. in Engineering Architecture from Gent University and an Advanced M.Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning from Leuven University in Belgium.

1. Closing Plenary - 04 Feb, 2021