This cluster focuses on creating equitable and sustainable cities by developing both engineering and institutional infrastructure that: 

• “Prevent harm” to all populations in the planning and design process. This requires: (i) having a right level of awareness of the problems that exist within each of these communities and their subgroups and (ii) ensuring that everyone has the right to access opportunities.  
• “Provides remedy masures when problems occur,” which implies proactive actions such as disaster mitigation measures and methods that consider the complexity of human-environment systems. Once common issues are defined, good practices and case studies can be defined to recover communities at a faster pace. 

Embrace just access to technology for everyone. This includes Appropriate technology and Context Sensitive designs.

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