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Last week was the 2023 observance of World Habitat Day. Surprisingly for some, the theme was Resilient Urban Economies. But this masks the fact that urban areas are habitats too. Human habitats. Since its inception in 1986, WHD has always been about how we shelter ourselves. The themes run between the more economic-social aspect of ensuring adequate shelter for all, and the more environmental aspect of making our towns and cities places that not only do not damage the environment – the hinterland or more generally e.g. air, water and light pollution – but can actually be designed to enhance it.
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