This webinar is based on the peer-reviewed paper The Forgotten Pedestrian: A Personal Reflection on Pedestrian Infrastructure in Extreme Heat1, published in Cities & Health2, a hybrid open access journal. It explores how extreme heat events reveal critical gaps in pedestrian infrastructure, particularly the disconnect between planning, design intentions, and the lived realities of city residents.
Drawing on personal experience from New York City and integrating shared insights from cities in Greece, including Thessaloniki, the session highlights how climate stress impacts walkability, livability, and public health in urban environments. It also examines broader implications for inclusive design, climate resilience, and sustainable urban mobility, with a focus on pedestrian infrastructure and streetscapes.
This approximately 60-minute webinar will invite attendees from across the globe and will include a brief introduction to the speaker, a main presentation, followed by a moderated discussion and an open Q&A session with participants.
- Yi Zhang (11 Jul 2025): The forgotten pedestrian: a personal reflection on pedestrian infrastructure in extreme heat, Cities & Health, DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2025.2523713
- Cities & Health journal has been established to support human and planetary health by sharing the latest international research and practice for urban health and health equity. The journal’s mission is to provide practitioners, researchers and communities with a platform to share, discuss problems to shape solutions from a spatial planning, urban design and physical city governance perspective. Built environment, including: Urban design, Planning Architecture, Transport, Landscape, City governance. Published by Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed Journals
