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This article presents the analysis and evaluation frameworks developed and the integrated and visionary solutions implemented by the IN-HABIT (Inclusive Health and Wellbeing in Small and Medium-Sized Cities) project to foster inclusive health and wellbeing. The project aims to investigate how the integration of social and cultural innovations, with innovations in infrastructure, technology, nature-based solutions, using participatory and inclusive methodologies to create multifunctional and inclusive public spaces, can increase health and wellbeing particularly in vulnerable areas and groups at risk of social exclusion. These actions have been implemented in four European cities, Cordoba (Spain), Riga (Latvia), Lucca (Italy) and Nitra (Slovakia), and are being replicated initially in the cities of Bogota and Medellin (Colombia). Each works with specific vulnerable groups and focuses on specific resources, but all use this analytical and conceptual framework.
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