Compassionate Cities

Compassionate Cities
( Charter of Compassion)
Compassionate Cities: An Antidote For
Urban Loneliness / Isolation

Compassionate Cities
Karen Armstrong, Charter for Compassion

Compassionate Cities: An Antidote For Urban
Loneliness / Isolation

What Is Compassion?
• Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among
emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises
when you are confronted with another’s suffering and
feel motivated to relieve that suffering.
• Compassion is not the same as empathy or altruism, though
the concepts are related.
• While empathy refers more generally to our ability to
take the perspective of and feel the emotions of another
person, compassion is when those feelings and thoughts
include the desire to help. Altruism, in turn, is the kind,
selfless behavior often prompted by feelings of
compassion, though one can feel compassion without
acting on it, and altruism isn’t always motivated by
compassion.

Compassion literally means
“to suffer together.”

Compassion
• Compassion motivates people to go out of their way
to help the physical, mental, or emotional pains of
another and themselves.
• Compassion is often regarded as having sensitivity,
which is an emotional aspect to suffering.
• Though, when based on cerebral notions such as
fairness, justice, and interdependence.

Compassion
• Compassion involves allowing ourselves to
be moved by suffering and experiencing the
motivation to help alleviate and prevent it.
• An act of compassion is defined by its
helpfulness.
• Qualities of compassion are patience and
wisdom; kindness and perseverance;
warmth and resolve.

Qualities of compassion are patience and wisdom;
kindness and perseverance; warmth and resolve

Urban Loneliness/ Urban Isolation
• It’s hard to believe someone could feel
lonely surrounded by millions of people in
an urban metropolis.
• But the truth is, loneliness affects residents of
all ages in major cities.

• Although there’s no single source of the
feeling, there are plenty of reasons why
urbanites report that they’re not as sociable
as those living in sparsely populated
locations.
• Almost as abundant are ways urban planners
can make things less lonely for people in the
future.

Why People Move to Cities
• A 2016 report stated that two billion people
would move to cities within the next 20 years.
• Mass migration is nothing new cities have
become the epicenter of opportunity.
• Whether new residents seek work, education,
healthcare, or social mobility, a metropolitan
area is where they’re most likely to find it.
• Despite all of the opportunities that come with
living in these major cities, there are some
drawbacks.

Mass migration is nothing new cities have
become the epicenter of opportunity

Why People Move to Cities
• The problem is that a move to a big city means
newcomers have to leave their social circles
behind.
• Whether they're a few miles or several hours
away from their family and childhood friends, life
in the city can be a separation that makes these
relationships feel the distance.
• Plus, without the built-in sociability that comes
with school or a career, it might be hard to
meet people at first.

How Living Alone Affects People
• Another facet of city life that affects both young and
old residents is the fact that so many urbanites live
alone
• Not everyone who lives alone is lonely, of course.
Research shows that the quality of social interactions
makes people feel more fulfilled, as opposed to the
quantity.
• So, even if someone spends most of their time in
their studio apartment, they won’t feel a sense of
loneliness if they grab dinner once a week with their
best friend.
• Without that interaction, though, they might feel
more isolated.

• Perhaps unsurprisingly, the age group most
susceptible to this kind of loneliness is the elderly.
• That’s because as people age, social circles shrink.
Think about it as retirees, seniors no longer have
daily interactions with colleagues.
• They might watch as friends, family, and even
spouses pass away.
• This type of loneliness can affect their health, too, so
planning social gatherings with elderly family
members who live alone can be beneficial to both of
you.

How Urban Planners Can Help
• It may seem as though the answer’s simple: make
urban spaces more conducive to long-term living so
people can live their entire lives in these
communities.
• This type of a transformation will take years to
complete, especially since the cost of living and real
estate prices remain high in places like Metro City.
• In the interim, urban planners can use their position
to encourage more social interaction among city
dwellers who will fill the square miles they so
carefully design. One great place to start is with green
spaces.

Make Urban Spaces More Conducive To
Long-term Living

• here are already numerous health benefits that come
with time spent outdoors, but an urban green area
can be more than just a breath of fresh air.
• It can be a meeting place for those who live in the
neighborhood, whether they’re first-time friends or
have a long history together.
• Urban planners can also bring the conveniences of
these extra-large cities to smaller metropolises so
that people have all the same opportunities and
benefits of city living without leaving their home
bases.

• Adding public transport, bicycle lanes, and making
public facilities more accessible by walking will give
smaller cities that same convenient feel.
• As a planner, you might feel as though you’ve provided
all the tools to city residents so they can lead happy,
social lives with their neighbors and friends. But
sometimes, the most crowded places on Earth can be
the loneliest.
• Keep this in mind as you work. There’s plenty more
that can be done to combat urban loneliness, and
you could be the one to make a change with a few
thoughtful planning choices.

Compassionate City
• “A compassionate city is an uncomfortable
city! A city that is uncomfortable when anyone is
homeless or hungry.
• Uncomfortable if every child isn’t loved and
given rich opportunities to grow and thrive.
• Uncomfortable when as a community we don’t
treat our neighbors as we would wish to be
treated.”
• --Karen Armstrong, Founder of the global
movement, The Charter for Compassion

“A compassionate city is an uncomfortable city!
A city that is uncomfortable when anyone is homeless
or hungry.

Compassionate City
• Human beings are social animals.
• We live and work and socialize together in
communities that exist in diverse cultures and
climates throughout the Earth.
• Within each of these communities from
Mongolia to Mogadishu to Managua to
Minnesota, human beings experience
compassion for others, relieving pain and
suffering for their families, for their neighbors,
for their communities.

Compassionate City
• But the structure of modern society of
nation states and mega cities and a world
population that has grown to over seven
billion often thwarts and distorts this
natural desire to be compassionate.
• The sense of disconnection is so pervasive that
unkindness, indifference, and selfishness
appear as the norm; compassion, kindness
and caring are the outliers.

Compassionate City
• In a Compassionate Community, the needs
of all the inhabitants of that community are
recognized and met, the well-being of the
entire community is a priority, and all
people and living things are treated with
respect.

Compassionate City
• More simply, in a Compassionate Community,
people are motivated by compassion to take
responsibility for and care for each other.

Compassionate City
• A community where compassion is fully
alive is a thriving, resilient community
whose members are moved by empathy to
take compassionate action, are able to
confront crises with innovative solutions, are
confident in navigating changes in the
economy and the environment, and are
resilient enough to bounce back readily
from natural and man-made disasters.

Compassionate City
• No single community in the world is a
Compassionate Community in any abstract or
formal sense, just as no community is devoid of
compassion.
• Each community will find its own path to
establishing compassion as a driving and
motivating force, and each will conduct its own
evaluation of what is “uncomfortable” in that
community’s unique culture that is, those issues
that cause pain and suffering to members of the
community.

Compassionate City
• For one community that discomfort may be
youth violence or an epidemic of teen
suicide.
• Another community may discover that a
portion of their community—perhaps
immigrants, the homeless, or an LGBTQ
group--has been marginalized, harassed, or
even physically threatened.

Charter for Compassion
• The Charter for Compassion is a document
that urges the peoples and religions of the
world to embrace the core value of
compassion.
• The charter currently is available in more
than 30 languages and has been endorsed by
more than two million individuals around
the globe

Charter for Compassion
• Charter for Compassion International, the
Charter's supporting organization, has enrolled
311 communities in 45 countries in its
Compassionate Communities campaign and
has partnered with more than 1,300
organizations to spread the Charter's message of
compassion in 10 sectors: the arts, business,
education, environment, healthcare, peace,
religion/spirituality/interfaith, science & research,
social sciences and restorative justice

History
• On February 28, 2008, scholar and author
Karen Armstrong won the TED Prize.
• In her acceptance speech she called for help in
creating, launching and propagating a Charter
for Compassion, based on the fundamental
principle of the Golden Rule

Scholar and author
Karen Armstrong

Golden Rule
• The Golden Rule is the principle of treating
others as you want to be treated. It is a maxim
that is found in most religions and cultures. It
can be considered an ethic of reciprocity in
some religions, although different religions
treat it differently.

Golden Rule
• The maxim may appear as a positive or
negative injunction governing conduct:
• Treat others as you would like others to treat
you (positive or directive form)
• Do not treat others in ways that you would not
like to be treated (negative or prohibitive form)
• What you wish upon others, you wish upon
yourself (empathetic or responsive form)

The Council of Conscience
• The Council of Conscience, a multi-faith,
multi-national group of religious thinkers and
leaders, then met in Vevey, Switzerland, to
craft the final Charter for Compassion.
• The Councilors sorted and reviewed the
thousands of written submissions, considered
the meaning of compassion, determined key
ideas to include in the Charter and created a
plan for how the Charter will live in the world

The Council of Conscience, a multi-faith,
multi-national group of religious thinkers
and leaders

The Council of Conscience
• The Charter for Compassion was unveiled by Karen
Armstrong and the Council of Conscience on
November 12, 2009, at the TutuNational Press Club
in Washington, DC.
• That day, more than 75 launch events took place around
the globe and more than 60 Charter for Compassion
plaques designed by Yves Behar were hung at
significant religious and secular sites around the world.
• At its launch, the Charter was endorsed by the Dalai
Lama and Archbishop Desmond among many
others

Charter for Compassion -- The
Organization
• Just a few months after Armstrong was awarded
the TED Prize, a partnership of individuals and
organizations around the world began coalescing
to bring the Charter for Compassion to life. On
May 4, 2009, the Compassionate Action
Network (CAN) was launched in Seattle.
• CAN's intention, expressed in its founding
document, was to create "an association of
like-minded programs, projects and
organizations that collectively represent the
power of thousands of relationships."

Compassionate Action Network
(CAN)

Charter for Compassion -- The
Organization
• CAN became the home for the Charter for Compassion
from the summer of 2012 through December 2013 and
provided a wealth of startup assistance to the Charter
organization, including staff, fundraising, resource
development, and strategic planning.
• With the support of CAN, the Fetzer Institute and many
other groups and individuals committed to the Charter's
ideals, the Charter for Compassion grew steadily in scale
and scope. In January, 2014, almost six years after the TED
Prize award, a group of leaders in the movement organized
as the Global Compassion Council and formed the Charter
for Compassion (CFC) as a non-profit(c)(3) organization.
The Global Compassion Council became CCI's advisory
panel

Compassionate Action Network (CAN)

Charter For Compassion
Mission
• Its mission is to support the emergence of a
global movement that brings the Charter for
Compassion to life.
• It does this by being a network of networks—
connecting organizers and leaders from around
the world; providing educational resources,
organizing tools and avenues for communication;
sharing lessons, stories and inspiration; and
providing an umbrella for Charter for Compassion
conferences, events, collaborations, conversations
and initiatives to create compassionate
communities and institutions around the globe.

Charter For Compassion
Mission

Compassionate City
• Although the early work of the Charter was
focused on building a network of cities, it soon
became evident that communities both larger
and smaller than cities wanted to join the
global movement in which compassion is at the
heart of a community’s activities.
• The Charter’s growing network of Compassionate
Communities now includes cities, towns,
townships, shires, hamlets, villages,
neighborhoods, islands, states, provinces,
counties, republics, and countries.

Compassionate City
• The Charter’s Compassionate Communities
program is not a certificate program that offers a
seal of approval, nor does it subscribe to a single
definition of a Compassionate Community.
• Instead, the Charter invites communities of all sizes to
bring compassion to life in practical, specific ways
through compassion-driven actions in neighborhoods,
businesses, schools and colleges, healthcare, the arts,
local government, peace groups, environmental
advocacy groups, and faith congregations.

What Are the Steps for Creating a
Compassionate Community?
• Any individual, group, or organization that
recognizes the need for greater compassion in a
community is encouraged to begin the process
for creating a Compassionate Community.
• While the Charter does not prescribe any one
path, it does recommend that the process be
designed and carried out by a diverse and
inclusive coalition of people so that all voices
within the community are heard, and the
significant issues are addressed.

• The cities and communities that sign on to become
Compassionate Cities and Communities have often
begun their work by identifying the issues that are
troubling the community and need to be addressed
through compassionate action.
• For example, a community may discover a significant issue
related to social justice-- for women, for immigrants, or for
some other marginalized group.
• Other communities may want to address issues of drug use,
gang violence, the lack of equitable healthcare, or the
effects of environmental racism.
• Others may decide to work to provide empowerment to
youth or to educate their communities about the need for
compassion in addressing environmental issues.

Steps to Take
• Any individual, group, or organization that
recognizes the need for greater compassion in a
community is encouraged to begin the process
for creating a Compassionate Community.
• While the Charter does not prescribe any one
path, it does recommend that the process be
designed and carried out by a diverse and
inclusive coalition of people so that all voices
within the community are heard, and the
significant issues are addressed.

Any individual, group, or organization that recognizes the
need for greater compassion in a community is encouraged to
begin the process for creating a Compassionate Community.

Steps to Take
• The cities and communities that sign on to
become Compassionate Cities and
Communities have often begun their work
by identifying the issues that are troubling
the community and need to be addressed
through compassionate action.

Compassionate Cities and Communities have often
begun their work by identifying the issues that are
troubling the community

Steps to Take
• For example, a community may discover a
significant issue related to social justice-- for
women, for immigrants, or for some other
marginalized group.
• Other communities may want to address issues of
drug use, gang violence, the lack of equitable
healthcare, or the effects of environmental racism.
Others may decide to work to provide
empowerment to youth or to educate their
communities about the need for compassion in
addressing environmental issues.

Community May Discover A Significant Issue
Related To Social Justice

checklist of 10 suggested steps
• This checklist of 10 suggested steps was
developed for those who want to organize a
Compassionate City or Community, but it
may also be useful to any group organizing for
social change and development.

Steps 1
• Bring together a group of people who are
open to identifying “discomforts” in your
community.

Steps 2
• Discover already-existing programs that are
dealing with local programs and celebrate
their successes.

Steps 3
• Invite people to join you in assessing your
community.

Steps 4
• Analyze challenges and opportunities,
choose an initial focus.

Steps 5
• Create short and long-term objectives and
action plans.

Steps 6
• Share ideas and plans with local
government and work for a public
resolution and affirmation of the Charter
for Compassion.

Steps 7
• Launch a kickoff event to widely publicize
your plans and begin implementation of
action plans around focus area(s).

Steps 8
• Monitor and measure your progress, and
continue planning.

Steps 9
• Communicate within the community on a
regular basis and reach out to share globally

Steps 10
• Compare your goals and actions against the
United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals.

Compassionate Communities
• At the heart of the Charter for Compassion's
work is its Campaign for Compassionate
Communities.
• In the beginning, this effort was focused on
building a network of cities, but it soon
and smaller than cities wanted to join the
movement to embrace compassion as a core
value.

Compassionate Communities
• The Charter's growing network of Compassionate
Communities encompasses nearly 50 countries and
includes cities, towns, townships, shires, hamlets,
villages, neighborhoods, islands, states, provinces,
and counties.
• Of these, more than 76 cities globally have affirmed the
Charter for Compassion through city, community
councils or other government entities.
• Affirming the Charter means that a community has
identified issues on which they are working, and
have committed to a multi-year action plan.

List of these Compassionate Cities

Louisville, KY—Model City
• Louisville, KY, is a shining example of a
Compassionate Community, having been named the
ICC’s Model City of the year for four consecutive
years (2012–2015).
• Louisville was the seventh city to sign on to the
Compassion Charter, and Mayor Greg Fischer created
Compassionate Louisville to help develop and
implement a city-wide campaign to nurture and
champion the growth of compassion.
• In 2015, the city broke its own world record, with
more than 166,000 volunteers and acts of
compassion

• Compassionate Louisville’s education team
launched the Compassion Bench project,
which is designed to provide safe spots in the
community where children are encouraged to
express compassion.

Compassion Bench project, which is designed to
provide safe spots in the community where children are
encouraged to express compassion.

• The first was installed at the Louisville
Islamic Center on the heels of an act of
vandalism there that ultimately served only to
unify the community.

• Mayor Fischer noted that the vandalism at the mosque
illustrates the heart of compassion in Louisville.
• Within hours of the terrible act, dozens of community and
religious leaders showed up at an 8 a.m. press conference to
denounce the hate and make plans for a community cleanup
the next day.
• That cleanup drew a crowd of nearly 1,000 people—men,
women and children; people of all color, nationality,
religion and political leanings. “If the vandals’ goal was to
highlight division, they failed miserably,” said Mayor
Fischer. “This is a city that rejects hate, and the response
to the incident at the mosque was a beautiful illustration
of the work we’ve done to become a community of even
greater compassion.”

Mayor Fischer noted that the vandalism at the
mosque illustrates the heart of compassion in
Louisville.

Within hours of the terrible act, dozens of community and
religious leaders showed up at an 8 a.m. press conference to
denounce the hate and make plans for a community cleanup the
next day

• Other examples of the city’s commitment to
compassion in 2015 include:
• The community’s Give Local Louisville effort brought
in almost $3 million for local charities in one day.
• Members of Compassionate Louisville’s Coordinating
Circle have mentored more than 40 other communities
interested in joining the Compassionate Cities
movement, including surrounding counties like
Henderson, Ky., as well as large cities like Detroit.
• In April, Mayor Fischer announced that Louisville and
Jefferson County Public Schools will serve as the site
of an independently funded, $11 million health and
wellness project focused on teaching caring for
oneself and others.

• Louisville supported and competed in the
“Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest!”
in September, joining cities across the nation in
vying to post the greatest number of good deeds
in an 11-day stretch in September.
• Nearly 100 local organizations and businesses
have made a commitment to compassion this
year, including the international YUM! Brands
and Brown-Forman.

“Compassion Games: Survival of the
Kindest!”

• Metro Louisville has lined up almost 100 volunteer
mentors to work one-on-one with at-risk youth in a
program called “Right Turn.”
• And Louisville Metro Government itself launched Metro
Mentors, which allows and encourages city employees to
spend two hours of paid time each week working with
at-risk youth.
• In March, area nonprofits worked with Liberians in our
community to fill a huge 12-metre (40 ft) ocean-going
container with emergency meals, water purification and
medical supplies and equipment for Ebola victims and
families and for those suffering the aftermath of the civil
war in Liberia

The Compassionate City Charter
• Compassionate Cities are communities that
recognize that all natural cycles of sickness and
health, birth and death, and love and loss occur
every day within the orbits of its institutions
and regular activities.
• A Compassionate City is a community that
recognizes that care for one another at times of
crisis and loss is not simply a task solely for
health and social services but is everyone’s
responsibility.

• Compassionate Cities are communities that
publicly encourage, facilitate, support and
celebrate care for one another during life’s
most testing moments and experiences,
especially those pertaining to life-threatening
and life-limiting illness, chronic disability,
frail, ageing and dementia, death in
childhood, grief and bereavement, and the
trials and burdens of long term care.

Compassionate Cities are communities that publicly
encourage, facilitate, support and celebrate care for
one another during life’s most testing moments

• Though local government strives to maintain and
strengthen quality services for the most fragile
and vulnerable in our midst, those persons are not
the limits of our experience of fragility and
vulnerability.
• Serious personal crises of illness, dying, death
and loss may visit any us, at any time during
the normal course of our lives.
• A compassionate city is a community that
squarely recognizes and addresses this social
fact

A compassionate city is a community that
squarely recognizes and addresses this social
fact

• Through the auspices of the Mayor’s office
or equivalent body, a compassionate city
will by public marketing and advertising, by
use of the city’s network and influences, by
virtue of collaboration and co-operation, in
partnership with social media and its own
offices –develop and support the following 13
social changes to the cities key institutions
and activities.

• 1.Our schools will have annually reviewed policies or
guidance documents for dying, death, loss and care.
• 2.Our workplaces will have annually reviewed policies or
• 3.Our trade unions will have annually reviewed policies or
• 4.Our places of worship will have at least one dedicated
group for end of life care support.
• 5.Our city’s hospices and nursing homes will have a
community development program involving local area
citizens in end of life care activities and programmes

• 6.Our city’s major museums and art galleries will
hold annual exhibitions on the experiences of
ageing, dying, death, loss or care.
• 7.Our city will host an annual peacetime memorial
parade representing the major sectors of human
loss outside military campaigns –cancer, motor
neuron disease, AIDS, child loss, suicide survivors,
animal companion loss, widowhood, industrial and
vehicle accidents, the loss of emergency workers and
all end of life care personnel, etc.

• 8.Ourcity will create an incentives scheme to
celebrate and highlight the most creative
compassionate organization, event, and
individual/s.
• The scheme will take the form of an annual
award administered by a committee drawn
from the end of life care sector.
• A ‘Mayors Prize’ will recognize individual/s
for that year who most exemplify the city’s
values of compassionate care.

• 9.Our city will publicly showcase, in print and in
social media, our local government policies,
services, funding opportunities, partnerships, and
public events that address ‘our compassionate
concerns’ with living with ageing, life-
threatening and life-limiting illness, loss and
bereavement, and long term caring.
• All end of life care-related services within the
city limits will be encouraged to distribute this
material or these web links including
veterinarians and funeral organizations.

• 10.Our city will work with local social or
print media to encourage an annual city-
wide short story or art competition that
helps raise awareness of ageing, dying,
death, loss, or caring.

• 11.All our compassionate policies and services, and
in the policies and practices of our official
compassionate partners and alliances, will
demonstrate an understanding of how diversity
shapes the experience of ageing, dying, death, loss
and care –through ethnic, religious, gendered, and
sexual identity and through the social experiences of
poverty, inequality, and disenfranchisement.
• 12.We will seek to encourage and to invite evidence
that institutions for the homeless and the imprisoned
have support plans in place for end of life care and
loss and bereavement.

• 13.Our city will establish and review these
targets and goal since the first two year and
thereafter will add one more sector annually
to our action plans for a compassionate city
–e.g. hospitals, further and higher education,
charities, community & voluntary
organizations, police & emergency services,
and so on

Smart City Council launches Compassionate
Cities campaign
• Helping cities extend the benefits of technology
to vulnerable citizens
• All over the world, smart technologies are
transforming cities. Reducing congestion. Cutting
crime. Slashing emissions. Boosting resilience.
Modernizing our infrastructure. Giving citizens
web and smart phone access to city services.
• Yet far too often, these benefits do not extend
to those most in need. The poor. The disabled.
The homeless. Those without Internet access.

Smart City Council launches
Compassionate Cities campaign

• The same digital technology that improves
infrastructure can also improve the human
condition.
• City leaders simply need to know how so
they can put it to work for their most
vulnerable citizens.

City leaders simply need to know how so they can
put it to work for their most vulnerable citizens.

• Providing that "know how" is the mission of the
Council's new Compassionate Cities effort, a
coalition of public, private and philanthropic
organizations focused on helping cities help the
disadvantaged in four areas:
• Food and water
• Shelter
• Upward mobility
• Wellness

• Rethinking existing technologies
“Our primary objective with this initiative is to reduce
suffering in cities through the use of technologies
already being applied to solve other city challenges,"
said Council Executive Director Philip Bane, who is
spearheading the Compassionate Cities effort.
"This is not about a slew of new technologies cities
have to budget for; it's about applying existing
smart technologies – from data analytics to social
media – to improve living standards for all citizens."

Council Executive Director Philip Bane, who is
spearheading the Compassionate Cities effort

Smart City Council launches Compassionate
Cities campaign
• United in compassion
• Today there is growing momentum to promote
compassion in urban centers as populations swell
and meeting basic needs becomes even more
challenging.
• Charter for Compassion International, for
example, encourages cities to commit to the
principles of its charter that call for making
the well-being of all citizens a priority.
• The Council's tech-centric approach adds another
important dimension to the conversation.

• The Council's tech-centric approach adds another
important dimension to the conversation.
• "City leaders know what they want to do," Bane said.
• "They want to solve homelessness and hunger. They
want to ensure access to clean water and health
services.
• They want all of their citizens to have a route out of
poverty."
• The question is how to do it.
• The answer oftentimes is technology

Compassionate City
• Although the early work of the Charter was
focused on building a network of cities, it soon
and smaller than cities wanted to join the global
movement in which compassion is at the heart of
a community’s activities.
• The Charter’s growing network of Compassionate
Communities now includes cities, towns,
townships, shires, hamlets, villages,
neighborhoods, islands, states, provinces,
counties, republics, and countries.

Terminology
• End-of-life care
• End-of-life care refers to health care for a
person with a terminal condition that has
become advanced, progressive, and/or
incurable.

Ethical Reciprocity
• Ethical Reciprocity
• The social norm of reciprocity is the
expectation that people will respond to each
other in similar ways responding to gifts and
kindnesses from others with similar
benevolence of their own, and responding to
harmful, hurtful acts from others with
either indifference or some form of
retaliation.

Urban Loneliness
• Urban Loneliness
• Urban loneliness is a virtual
pandemic.
• Even though there have
never been as many cities
across the world as there are
right now with such high
populations, urban loneliness
carries with it huge social,
medical and financial
consequences.

Books
Compassionate Cities: Public Health and End-Of-Life Care
by Allan Kellehear

Books
Designing the Compassionate City: Creating
Places Where People Thrive
by Jenny Donovan

References
• Charter for Compassion
• https://charterforcompassion.org/
• Compassionate Cities
• https://phpci.info/become-compassionate-cities
• Compassionate Community
• https://charterforcompassion.org/communities
• Designing the compassionate city
• https://theconversation.com/designing-the-compassionate-city-to-overcome-built-in-
biases-and-help-us-live-better-92726
• SCC launches Compassionate Cities campaign
• https://smartcitiescouncil.com/article/compassionate-cities
• Understanding the Unique Challenges of Urban Loneliness
• https://www.planetizen.com/blogs/98502-understanding-unique-challenges-
urban-loneliness
• What Makes a Compassionate City?
• https://charterforcompassion.org/what-makes-a-compassionate-city-cci

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