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title: "Livable Cities Video Blog: Public Spaces in Nepal"
date: 2015-09-10T16:40:00-04:00
author: Mike Mella
canonical_url: "https://healthbridge.ca/news/livable-cities-video-blog-public-spaces-in-nepal"
section: Noteworthy
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#### Livable Cities

### Noteworthy Article 

 

 

   Date: September 10, 2015 

 

 

### Details

 

This is part of a series of video blogs by Livable Cities Program Director Kristie Daniel.

Kristie describes the role that public spaces played during the Nepal earthquake. She highlights [recent research](http://www.eskp.de/en/the-aftermath-of-an-earthquake-in-kathmandu/) that shows there are not enough open spaces in the city for people to be able to access an open space from home quickly in a disaster: