Vila Viva is a large-scale urban renewal programme across 12 informal settlements in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Using participatory governance models, the city has delivered vast urban renewal initiatives, land regularisation and community development activities that have benefitted residents’ health in numerous ways. Evaluations of the programme demonstrate success through multiple indicators, including reduced homicides and improved connectivity to infrastructure and community services.
This project is featured as one of our healthy urban development case studies and this case is adapted from the full version in Healthy Urbanism.(1)
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