Huda Shaka
Dubai
Huda’s experience and training combine urban planning, sustainable development and public health. She is a chartered town planner (MRTPI) and a chartered environmentalist (CEnv) with over 15 years’ experience focused on visionary master plans and city plans across the Arabian Gulf. She is passionate about influencing Arab cities towards sustainable development.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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Nature for All: How can we uproot structural inequity in the provision of nature and its benefits to people?
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Planning is Power: How Planning Shaped Colonial Realities in Occupied Palestine
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Including Diverse Voices in Adaptation Planning
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Covid has upended all the normal routines in our lives and work. How do you imagine you might be changed by it, both professionally, but also personally as you negotiate a new post-virus “normal”?
Africa, Awareness, Biodiversity, Climate change, Communities, Conservation, Covid-19, Culture, Disasters/Red zone, Economics, Ecosystem services, Europe, Experiencing Nature, Green Infrastructure, Health, Justice, Livability, North America, Parks, Participation/Democracy, Planning, Pollution, Resilience, South America, Sustainability, Wildlife People Interactions -
How is the concept of “stewardship” and “care for local environments” expressed around the world?
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What prevents us from creating cities that are better for people and nature? It doesn’t seem like a lack of knowledge—don’t we have enough research knowledge to act on better policy? So, what is the impediment?
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What did you read in 2018 that moved you?
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Rethinking Cities in Arid Environments for the 21st Century
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Smart cities are coming. Can they be as much about nature, health, and wellbeing as traffic flows, crime detection, and evermore efficient provision of utilities?
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Kuwait Transformed: Urban and Social Change from Pre- to Post-Oil Kuwait
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Exploring Questions of Architecture and Identity from “The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria”
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Habitat III is finally a reality. From your perspective, what would be the single most important tangible outcome (not output) of the event—short or long term—and what will it take to achieve this outcome?
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Cycling Politics, Identities, and Cultures
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Air Pollution: Urban Myths and Realities
