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Public space is a crucial component of sustainable cities and communities: providing ecosystem services, improving health and wellbeing, ensuring social inclusion and economic exchange, and so enrich the quality of life of all urban dwellers, leaving no one behind. In collaboration with partners, UN-Habitat demonstrates how to revitalize public spaces , transform communities and change mind-sets through innovative community-led approaches and scalable catalytic pilots.

UN-Habitat’s research shows that well-functioning cities have around 50% of the surface area dedicated to public space. Unfortunately, few cities around the world meet this target. Lack of quality public spaces reduces urban quality of life, leading to increased crime, social tensions, negative health impacts, and congestion. Public space provides leverage to optimize urban performance – build safer and cohesive communities, reduce spatial inequalities, build local economies and bring nature back to the city.

Learn more about the impact of the Global Public Space Programme and partner with us through the Global Public Space Network.

Impact

Through the Global Public Space Programme UN-Habitat has completed more than

150

safe, inclusive and accessible public spaces in over 100 cities.

Since the start, over

2.8 million

people benefits from the access to public spaces designed and upgraded through UN-Habitat’s Global Public Space Programme.

More than

52,000

people including youth, children, women and girls have been engaged in the co-design and co-building of their public spaces.

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Urban October Report 2025: responding to crises and advancing people-centred smart cities

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22 September 2022

Tripoli, Lebanon’s most marginalised city, sees positive impact of basic services

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15 September 2022

Students at a school in Syria can now stroll safely to schools after roads are secured

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15 June 2022

Somaliland locals to enjoy upcoming developments of the public Berbera beachfront

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2 June 2022

More than 200 children co-design the Central Park of Madrid Nuevo Norte using digital gaming

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Public Space Policy for Local Government Units 2024

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Annual Report

Global Public Space Programme Annual Report 2023

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Toolkits, Manuals and Guides

Her City – A Guide for Cities to Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Planning and Design together with Girls (third edition)

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The Block by Block Playbook: Using Minecraft as a participatory design tool in urban design and governance

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City-wide public space assessment toolkit: A guide to community-led digital inventory and assessment of public spaces

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Public Space Site-Specific Assessment: Guidelines to Achieve Quality Public Spaces at Neighbourhood Level

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As part of our public space work, we work with a wide range of partners – including local and national governments, civil society academia and the private sector. The UN-Habitat public space network includes more than 800 actors that regularly meet to bring the public agenda forward.

Our public space regeneration projects are usually implemented through a collaboration between UN-Habitat, the local government and a civil society organization, but in some cases also with other UN agencies, gathered in a United Nations public space network.

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