I take great pleasure to share with you news of our PASCAL Directors.

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The OECD Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division invites you to the following webinar: En route to achieving the SDGs in Cities and Regions – an OECD data and visualisation tool on 19 May 2020, 13:00 – 14:30 CET.

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The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) cordially invites you to a webinar on prisons and prison education during COVID-19:

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Increases in elderly populations and population declines expected in the next decade and longer will cause rural areas and small towns, especially, to lose many essential long-standing businesses such as grocery stores, restaurants, etc. Retirements of elderly long-time owners, loss of young families to larger centers, and other issues will make it difficult to transition these businesses to new owners. At the same time, the businesses are critical to maintaining a high quality of life and viability of the communities.

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This newsletter from the Project for Public Spaces connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement. In this edition,  as residents, designers, and policymakers adapt public spaces to face the threat of COVID-19 and its social and economic fallout, success will depend a great deal on our ability to experiment, observe, and learn. So what better time to revisit the work of trailblaizing public space researcher and PPS mentor, William H. Whyte? This Thursday, join Project for Public Spaces staff for a free watch party of Whyte's influential 1980 documentary, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Register now.

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A healthy city involves more than good healthcare delivery. Studies have shown that a population’s health is significantly shaped by where and how we live, work, learn, and play – the social and urban environments we live in, and the behaviours we adopt. 

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Glebe is a suburb of Sydney (Australia) that fringes the harbour.  For over 50 years a community body, The Glebe Society, has joined together to advance: Community · Environment · Heritage.  The membership committee initiates a range of activities to engage, reveal and celebrate the uniqueness of this area.

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We hope that you and your loved ones are keeping well during this time. Apologies for our lateness for the April Newsletter, but we hope you will enjoy reading on the 'Voices of Faith' radio program sharing in this issue:

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